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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

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Book Cover for: To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness, Robin Coste Lewis

To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness

Robin Coste Lewis
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

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
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Book Cover for: Tides, Sara Freeman

Tides

Sara Freeman
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

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
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Book Cover for: Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World, Pádraig Ó. Tuama

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

Pádraig Ó. Tuama
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

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
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Book Cover for: Couplets: A Love Story, Maggie Millner

Couplets: A Love Story

Maggie Millner
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

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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Book Cover for: The Black Maria, Aracelis Girmay

The Black Maria

Aracelis Girmay
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

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
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Book Cover for: A Year & Other Poems, Jos Charles

A Year & Other Poems

Jos Charles
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

@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
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Book Cover for: Stones: Poems, Kevin Young

Stones: Poems

Kevin Young
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

“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
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Book Cover for: The Virtues of Poetry, James Longenbach

The Virtues of Poetry

James Longenbach
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

“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
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Book Cover for: The Curious Thing: Poems, Sandra Lim

The Curious Thing: Poems

Sandra Lim
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

(Sandra Lim, The Curious Thing) https://t.co/EseOfsT3gO

Paperback, 2023

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Human Hours: Poems, Catherine Barnett

Human Hours: Poems

Catherine Barnett
Gabrielle BatesGabrielle Bates

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
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