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Matthew Minicucci Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

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Writer. ✨Next book, DUAL, forthcoming 10.15.23 from @acre_books.✨Asst. Professor, @UofAlabama. Cat Dad. https://t.co/AsB6OaYz95

18 books
Book Cover for: The Third Realm, Karl Ove Knausgaard

The Third Realm

Karl Ove Knausgaard
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

Provides readers with a series of complicated characters, within seemingly isolated and intimate chapters, who make tough, existence-defining choices... This theme of choice and who bears the responsibilities of those choices is paramount to both the novel and its perspectives.

Hardcover, 2024

$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick, Donna Tartt

The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick

Donna Tartt
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

@tomsojka Donna Tartt’s THE SECRET HISTORY

Paperback, 2004

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Green Squall, Jay Hopler

Green Squall

Jay Hopler
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

From GREEN SQUALL (2006, @yalepress) by Jay Hopler https://t.co/371EMSaChI

Paperback, 2006

$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Fighting Is Like a Wife, Eloisa Amezcua

Fighting Is Like a Wife

Eloisa Amezcua
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

"Her dark eyes, how they follow you in this room—/ she won't let up. She's standing at the finish, both of you/ still punching holes through each other & calling it love." From FIGHTING IS LIKE A WIFE, (will be released 4/12/22!) from @Coffee_House_ by @Eloisa_Amezcua https://t.co/s6qQnBbkm4

Paperback, 2022

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Elegy, Larry Levis

Elegy

Larry Levis
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

Still one of my favorite openings for a poem ever. From ELEGY (1997, @UPittPress) by Larry Levis https://t.co/BE7Qm6BGeF

Paperback, 1997

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Some Trees: Yale Series of Younger Poets, John Ashbery

Some Trees: Yale Series of Younger Poets

John Ashbery
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

Continually reminded by John Ashbery of the absolute cacophony of possible syntax choices one can make in a poem. From SOME TREES (1957 [1978 reprint], @eccobooks) https://t.co/zCvKSCTam6

Paperback, 2011

$22.95$11.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Resistance to Poetry, James Longenbach

The Resistance to Poetry

James Longenbach
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

“the power of a poem inheres in the realization that we cannot count on it. Its ephemeral consolation depends precisely on its being ephemeral…” James Longenbach, THE RESISTANCE TO POETRY (2004) https://t.co/48AxuCY8qb

Paperback, 2005

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pilgrim Bell: Poems, Kaveh Akbar

Pilgrim Bell: Poems

Kaveh Akbar
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

"lamplight. Show me one beast / that loves itself as relentlessly / as even the most miserable man." From PILGRIM BELL (2021, @GraywolfPress) by Kaveh Akbar https://t.co/0pM5f77eNS

Paperback, 2021

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Year & Other Poems, Jos Charles

A Year & Other Poems

Jos Charles
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

"But the world is/gone But the world is/a lake in the shape of/a lake" From A YEAR & OTHER POEMS (2022, @Milkweed_Books) by Jos Charles https://t.co/4OFvt83Hay

Hardcover, 2022

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gloria, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Gloria

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Matthew MinicucciMatthew Minicucci

This tweet is the plot of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ play GLORIA, which you should definitely read/see. https://t.co/WYfJaBguQ5

Paperback, 2017

$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book