Susan L. Leary Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Susan L. Leary on XPoet/Educator | DRESSING THE BEAR (Louise Bogan Award, @triohousepress 2024) | A BUFFET TABLE FIT FOR QUEENS (Washburn Prize, @harbor_review) + 2 | Mayah 🐶

I Thought There Would Be More Wolves: Poems
Sara Ryan“the truth is, I am not that strong.” —Sara Ryan, “The Mackinac Fox” in I THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE MORE WOLVES ✨ @SaraReneeRyan https://t.co/awTNYOvqlw
Paperback, 2021
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
West Portal
Benjamin Gucciardi“Let nothing shatter.” —Benjamin Gucciardi, “Advice for Pallbearers” in WEST PORTAL @bengucciardi https://t.co/oObGwRbXwF
Paperback, 2021
$14.95Member price:$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spit
Daniel Lassell“To travel your childhood means / never to age. Watch. I am attempting as far back / as time will take me.” —Daniel Lassell, “Evolution Chart” in SPIT @dlassell https://t.co/pTlTcAiBzo
Paperback, 2021
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Love and Other Poems
Alex Dimitrov“People are dying without anyone to call.” —Alex Dimitrov, “February” in LOVE AND OTHER POEMS @alexdimitrov https://t.co/YSdPAnCAuD
Paperback, 2021
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hillbilly Madonna
Sara Moore Wagner“Consider the wick / of the candle, how it rests inside / the body, how it’s lit and destroys / everything.” —Sara Moore Wagner, “Purity Test” from HILLBILLY MADONNA @SaraMooreWagne1 https://t.co/RQnrTSbd0B
Paperback, 2022
$15.99Member price:$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Equilibrium
Tiana Clark“What is left / whispering in us, once we have / stopped trying to become the other?” —Tiana Clark (@TianaClarkPoet), “Equilibrium” ✨ https://t.co/ey2vjbCykA
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Guess What's Different
Susan Triemert“No one else looked me in the eye.” —Susan Triemert, “Greeting Cards” in GUESS WHAT’S DIFFERENT Such a beautiful, human, poignant, and at times, heartbreakingly sad essay collection. 💙 @SusanTriemert @MalarkeyBooks https://t.co/J5pnu0S9JP
Paperback, 2022
$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Trees Witness Everything
Victoria Chang“There is a bird and a stone / in your body. You job is not / to kill the bird with the stone.” —Victoria Chang, from THE TREES WITNESS EVERYTHING @VChangPoet https://t.co/zOXHdh0w5s
Paperback, 2022
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Cenzontle
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo“I will keep her name in a jar / and wait for her to grow up and laugh / when I open the lid and tell her / this is where you came from.” —Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, “Love Poem: A Nocturne” in CENZONTLE @marcelo_H_ https://t.co/oZzX69pv9g
Paperback, 2018
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Yours, Creature
Jessica CuelloJust starting this beauty of a collection & already, I’m so taken. Thank you, @JessicaACuello, for your incredible poems. We are so lucky to read them. “To be sent is different from being left.” —Jessica Cuello, “Dear Scottish time,” in YOURS, CREATURE https://t.co/BrX4D0AOyZ
Paperback, 2023
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book