Gabrielle Bates Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Gabrielle Bates is a poet and writer. JUDAS GOAT (@Tin_House 2023) • works for @openpoetrybooks • cohosts @PoetSalonPod • words in @NewYorker @AmPoetryReview • from Bham, AL • she/her

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
Robin Coste Lewis
downloading the net galley of Robin Coste Lewis’s To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness 🥲
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tides
Sara Freeman
Also, today’s happy hour reading: Tides, by Sara Freeman 💜 https://t.co/JokF3eqXl2
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. Tuama
When I think about the kind of person I’d like to be, when it comes to engaging with people and with art, I think of Pádraig Ó Tuama in interviews / on Poetry Unbound—the wisdom & care, the warmth, intelligence in service of connection… A north star kind of presence.
Hardcover, 2022
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Couplets: A Love Story
Maggie Millner
Woke up so confused & thrilled to see Judas Goat on this @vulture list of “30 books we can’t wait to read this winter” alongside Cormac McCarthy, Prince Harry’s memoir, @ericajberry’s Wolfish, Maggie Millner’s Couplets…😅🤯💅 https://t.co/NIkfVDIfGL https://t.co/Murm8nFyPz
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The Black Maria
Aracelis Girmay
When Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria first came out in 2016, it moved & beguiled me like no other collection of poetry. I kept rereading it, met with other poets to discuss it one-on-one over coffees, carried it everywhere—an utterly unique reading experience for me still
Paperback, 2016
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Year & Other Poems
Jos Charles
@openpoetrybooks @boaeditions @lutherxhughes @TriQuarterlyMag @AliceJamesBooks ✨ Incitements (@udpbooks) - @kyle_decoy ✨ All the Flowers Kneeling - @speakdeadly ✨ Intimacies, Received - @BambrickTaneum ✨ Vapor - @saraelizaj ✨ A Hundred Lovers - @RichieHof ✨ a Year & other poems - Jos Charles ✨ Dear God. Dear Bones. Dear Yellow. - @MyNrhindi
Paperback, 2024
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Stones: Poems
Kevin Young
“think of the heart / alone with what / cannot be sung” -Kevin Young (@Deardarkness), Stones (@AAKnopf) https://t.co/IBA2GzBD1M
Paperback, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Virtues of Poetry
James Longenbach
“More than lack of ambition, it is the inability to surrender… that keeps us from fulfilling our promise.” -James Longenbach, The Virtues of Poetry
Paperback, 2013
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Curious Thing: Poems
Sandra Lim
(Sandra Lim, The Curious Thing) https://t.co/EseOfsT3gO
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Human Hours: Poems
Catherine Barnett
Thinking today about Catherine Barnett, a poet I feel such a fondness for, on & off the page. Returning to a few poems in Human Hours (@GraywolfPress). https://t.co/ej754sPrqm
Paperback, 2018
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book