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Moy Sand and Gravel

Moy Sand and Gravel is a poetry collection published in 2002 by the Northern Irish poet Paul Muldoon. The collection's t...

Lyric Contemporary Irish Pulitzer

8.8 Great

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The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart

"The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart" is a poem by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, featured in her 1978...

Canadian 1980S Feminist Selected

8.7 Great

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Glass, Irony and God

Glass, Irony and God is a 1995 poetry collection by the Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson. The book is known for...

Lyric Canadian 20TH Century Experimental

8.6 Great

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Morning in the Burned House

"Morning in the Burned House" is a poetry collection by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1995. The book exp...

Lyric Canadian Elegy Late 20TH Century

8.6 Great

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Pilgrim Bell

Kaveh Akbar’s *Pilgrim Bell* is a 2021 poetry collection examining profound themes through lyrical verse. The work explo...

Lyric American Contemporary Spiritual

8.5 Great

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Metaphysical Dog

Metaphysical Dog is a 2013 poetry collection by American poet Frank Bidart, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The...

Lyric Contemporary 21ST Century National Book Award

8.5 Great

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Scattered Snows, to the North

Carl Phillips’ Scattered Snows, to the North explores profound questions about remembrance and life's end through evocat...

Lyric American Contemporary Pulitzer

8.4 Great

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The Prodigal

The Prodigal is a book-length poem by the Caribbean poet and Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, published in 2004. The narrat...

Lyric 21ST Century Caribbean Late Career

8.4 Great

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The Beauty of the Husband

The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos is a 2001 poetry collection by Canadian author Anne Carson. St...

Lyric Narrative Canadian 21ST Century

8.4 Great

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A Scattering of Salts

A Scattering of Salts is a poetry collection published in 1995 by the American poet James Merrill. It serves as Merrill'...

Lyric American 20TH Century Late Career

8.4 Great

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Monologue of a Dog

Monologue of a Dog is a poetry collection published in 2005 by the Polish Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska. The volume...

Lyric Polish Contemporary Ironic

8.4 Great

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The Hurting Kind

Ada Limón’s “The Hurting Kind” is a poetry collection examining profound relationships between individuals and the natur...

Nature Lyric American Contemporary

8.3 Great

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Men in the Off Hours

Men in the Off Hours is a 2000 book by the Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson, blending lyric poetry, essays, dram...

Lyric Canadian 21ST Century Experimental

8.3 Great

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Muscular Music

Muscular Music is the debut poetry collection of American poet Terrance Hayes, published in 1999. The collection explore...

Lyric Contemporary 21ST Century Debut

8.3 Great

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Chronic

Chronic is a 2009 poetry collection by the American poet D. A. Powell, published by Graywolf Press. It engages with them...

Lyric Contemporary 21ST Century Powell

8.3 Great

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Source

"Source" is a poetry collection by American poet Mark Doty, published in 2001 by HarperCollins. Known for his exploratio...

Lyric Contemporary 21ST Century Spiritual

8.3 Great

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Elogio de la sombra

Elogio de la sombra is a 1969 poetry collection by Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges, published by Editorial Emecé. The...

Lyric 20TH Century Argentine Late Career

8.2 Great

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Star Dust

Star Dust is a poetry collection by American author Frank Bidart, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2005. The co...

Lyric Contemporary 21ST Century Grief

8.2 Great

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Power Politics

Power Politics is a poetry collection by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood, first published in 1971. Its compact, often ir...

Canadian 20TH Century Feminist Ironic

8.2 Great

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The Book of Longing

The Book of Longing is a 2006 illustrated collection of poems and prose by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. The...

Contemporary Canadian Illustrated Late Career

7.4 Good