Patrycja 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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author of ANCHOR BABY (@Tin_House, 2025) • editor @seventhwavemag • daughter of Polish immigrants
Punks
John KeenePatrycja“but even beauty has its role on the trading floor of moral reckoning and though every lyric is a voucher of our failure there are times when only a poem like daydreams or a lover’s arms can satisfy a certain quality of hunger” John Keene, “A Sonnet to Tyson Beckford,” Punks https://t.co/LU1l2FNMQT
Paperback, 2021
$20.00Member price:$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wild Is the Wind: Poems
Carl PhillipsPatrycja“…How far is instinct from a thing like belief? Not far, apparently.” forever astounded by Carl Phillips’ poems “Dirt Being Dirt” from Pale Colors in a Tall Field https://t.co/63vHYpY63q
Paperback, 2019
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Black Maria
Aracelis GirmayPatrycja@MBattisto3 among so many brilliant ones, 5 books & poets that immediately come to mind: Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria, Aria Aber’s Hard Damage, Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness, Jenny Xie’s Eye Level, Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem
Paperback, 2016
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Faith
Maya C. PopaPatrycja“I look till there’s no distance between me and the looking.” —Maya C. Popa, “The Master’s Pieces,” American Faith
Paperback, 2019
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dissolve
Sherwin BitsuiPatrycja“No language but its rind crackling in the past tense.” from Sherwin Bitsui’s Dissolve
Paperback, 2018
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Civil Service: Poems
Claire SchwartzPatrycjai love the opening to Claire Schwartz’ Civil Service, excerpted here https://t.co/nb14T3hMOX
Paperback, 2022
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó. TuamaPatrycja@AndyWPhilosophy Between the Covers with David Naimon for in-depth brilliant interviews w writers across genre ❤️🔥 The Slowdown with Ada Limón - short, gorgeous episodes focused on a single poem (Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound for this also)
Hardcover, 2022
$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Curious Thing: Poems
Sandra LimPatrycja“I love you, I wish there was some more original way of saying it.” —Sandra Lim, “Naxos,” The Curious Thing https://t.co/duApJJRqO9
Paperback, 2023
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
Jane WongPatrycjalately loving: Carl Phillips’ Wild is the Wind, Taylor Johnson’s Inheritance, Anne Boyer’s The Undying, Shangyang Fang’s Burying the Mountain, Jorie Graham’s Sea Change, Jane Wong’s How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart, Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness https://t.co/P95MQ153vc
Paperback, 2021
$24.95Member price:$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Burying the Mountain
Shangyang FangPatrycjalately loving: Carl Phillips’ Wild is the Wind, Taylor Johnson’s Inheritance, Anne Boyer’s The Undying, Shangyang Fang’s Burying the Mountain, Jorie Graham’s Sea Change, Jane Wong’s How to Not Be Afraid of Everything, Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart, Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness https://t.co/P95MQ153vc
Paperback, 2021
$16.00Member price:$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book