Books like The wild iris
The wild iris by Louise Glück reads as stark, contemplative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Dream Work
Mary Oliver · 1986
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74% genome match
FACING THE RIVER
Czesław Miłosz · 1995
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74% genome match
The seven ages
Louise Glück · 2001
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73% genome match
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
Emily Dickinson · 1890
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69% genome match
Life studies
Robert Lowell · 1959
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69% genome match
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam · 1859
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69% genome match
Book of mercy
Leonard Cohen · 1984
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69% genome match
Poems 1976-1986
Margaret Atwood · 1986
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69% genome match
The white pony
Robert Payne · 1947
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69% genome match
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu · -400
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69% genome match
The dead and the living
Sharon Olds · 1984
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69% genome match
The complete poems of Anne Brontë
Anne Brontë · 1920
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69% genome match
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