To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing. A continuation of the author's previous verse novel Autobiography of Red, following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
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Novels in Verse for Grown ups
In celebration of National Poetry Month, here are a wide variety of novels-in-verse for adult readers. (Created April 2023)
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- A series of stories explores the lives of those neglected and denied by society's status quo.
- Here the father is temporary, the mother is dead-alive and girls are writing tiger-legends through sestina, haibun, and the lost letters that must be reinvented if we can understand this new American body.
- After discovering that her married lover has been killed in an accident, estate lawyer Ana Kelly, alone and undone, seeks friendship with the person who she once thought of as her adversary and opposite, but who is now the only one who shares her…
- Drawn from the author's experiences growing up in a Paris banlieue, a powerful, lyric debut that explores the diverse, often conflicting facets of her identity-French, Algerian, Muslim, lesbian.
- Visiting all the fixtures of fashionable twenty-first century queer society--picnics, literary readings, health conferences, drag shows, punk houses, community accountability processes, Grindr hookups--The Call-Out os a modern novel of manners that…
- A prose poem tribute to the tragic life and transcendent art of Holocaust victim Charlotte Salomon depicts a young World War II artist from Berlin who embraces life in the aftermath of a devastating suicide before escaping to France.
- Astrid is returning home from art school on Mars, looking for inspiration. Darling is fleeing a life that never fit, searching for somewhere to hide. They meet on Deep Wheel Orcadia, a distant space station struggling for survival as the pace of…
- Exquisitely crafted, richly imagined, and as funny as it is moving, Hourglass is an unusual and uniquely told love story. Turning time upside down, it combs the wreckage of personal heartbreak for something universal and asks what it means to lose…
- A love story about fandom, an ode to music snobs, and a time-tripping work of speculative fiction--in verse.
- A verse novel composed of 14-line stanzas inspired by Pushkin's Evgeny Onegin, reflecting Hejinian's experiences of literary and lived life in Leningrad and Moscow.
- Written during the Second World War while Hikmet was serving a thirteen-year sentence as a political prisoner, his verse-novel uses cinematic techniques to tell the story of the emergence of secular, modern Turkey by focusing on the…
- Kunigunde is destined to become the next in a long line of Heller clan vampire hunters -- but her soul is drawn to books, poetry, and the vampire Graf. Set in 1960s Europe, The Night Library of Sternendach is an unabashedly melodramatic…
- A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The šance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits.
- Ludlow tells the story of a handful of immigrants Greek, Mexican, Scottish, Italian in southern Colorado, climaxing in the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914, in which elements of the Colorado National Guard killed striking miners and family members.
- A novel in verse that inspired the West End and Off-Broadway play of the same name, The Lehman Trilogy follows the epic rise and fall of three generations of the Lehman family and through them tells the story of American ambition and hubris.
- La Trilog̕a Lehman, obra maestra de Stefano Massini es una historia americana de ambici̤n y ̌xito, pero tambǐn de arrogancia y excesos; una epopeya profundamente original, sorprendente y conmovedora.
- A verse epic for the 21st century, Poguemahone combines the fragmentation of cummings and Williams and the spontaneity of Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti with a soundtrack by Mott the Hoople, then douses it in whisky and sets it on fire.
- A genre-breaking novella told in short, brilliant, beautifully strange passages. The narrator, a young woman, has fled to the forest to pursue her artwork in isolation. While there, she falls in love with a married man she meets at a country dance.
- Hannah, a Korean American girl from Queens, New York, and Angel, a Puerto Rican boy from Brooklyn, fall in love in the spring of 1993, as told in this hip-hop love story, not of the Capulets and the Montagues, but two New York City kids trying to…
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