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Books like Poems 1962-2012
A stark, deceptively simple journey through myth, nature, and the paradox of a mortal body producing enduring art. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Poems 1962-2012.
- mythic
- stark
- elemental
- melancholic
- 01
Poems
Mary Oliver · 1992
A quiet, luminous invitation to step outside, pay attention, and find your place in the family of things.
- 02
Averno
Louise Glück · 2006
A stark, wintry descent into the mythic underworld of grief and the betrayals of the mortal body.
- 03
The wild iris
Louise Gluck · 1992
A haunting, polyphonic conversation between a gardener, the earth, and the divine, blooming with quiet devastation.
- 04
The complete poems
Anne Sexton
A raw, unflinching descent into the beautiful and terrifying depths of the human mind.
- 05
Selected poems of Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
A raw, unapologetic excavation of the female psyche, mental anguish, and the messy business of being alive.
- 06
Poems
Rainer Maria Rilke
A quiet, soul-stirring descent into the depths of human solitude and the transcendent beauty of the natural world.
- 07
Blue horses
Mary Oliver
A quiet, luminous invitation to step outside, breathe deeply, and fall in love with the world all over again.
- 08
The Tradition
Jericho Brown
A daring, formally inventive exploration of trauma, identity, and survival that cuts to the core of the human experience.
- 09
Crush
Richard Siken · 2004
A breathless, blood-soaked fever dream of obsessive love and the violence of wanting someone too much.
- 10
The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
Sylvia Plath · 2000
A raw, feverish descent into the brilliant, turbulent mind of a poet hungry for life yet haunted by her own shadows.
- 11
Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen
A witty, sensuous, and timeless exploration of language and visual art spanning decades of intimate poetic reflection.
- 12
Collected Poems
Sylvia Plath · 1981
A blistering, visceral descent into the depths of the human psyche, where personal anguish is forged into razor-sharp, mythic art.
