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Across Inspirational & Religious, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes, and American — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notley.

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Tropic of Squalor Poems — Mary Karr

Tropic of Squalor Poems

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

The Generosity — Luci Shaw

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party — Chessy Normile

Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

The Twenty-ninth Year Poems — Hala Alyan

The Twenty-ninth Year Poems

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

My Soul Speaks — Joyce Robinson-Brim

Joyce Robinson-Brim

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Nineteen — Makenzie Campbell

Makenzie Campbell

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

And Still I Rise A Book of Poems — Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise A Book of Poems

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

The Unswept Room — Sharon Olds

The Unswept Room

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Make Me Rain Poems and Prose — Nikki Giovanni

Make Me Rain Poems and Prose

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Santa Tarantula — Jordan Pérez

Santa Tarantula

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Unlock Your Storybook Heart — Amanda Lovelace

Unlock Your Storybook Heart

Amanda Lovelace

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

A Cry Like a Bell — Madeleine L’Engle

A Cry Like a Bell — Madeleine L’Engle

Madeleine L'Engle

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Milk and Honey 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition — Rupi Kaur

Milk and Honey 10th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

How Far You Have Come Musings on Beauty and Courage — Morgan Harper Nichols

How Far You Have Come Musings on Beauty and Courage

Morgan Harper Nichols

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Artemis Made Me Do It — Trista Mateer

Artemis Made Me Do It

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

100 Poems to Break Your Heart — Edward Hirsch

100 Poems to Break Your Heart

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Make Me Rain Poems & Prose — Nikki Giovanni

Make Me Rain Poems & Prose

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

May I Only Leave Rose Petals — J. S. Drake

May I Only Leave Rose Petals

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Where Water Meets the Rock — Lindsey Martin-Bowen

Where Water Meets the Rock

Lindsey Martin-Bowen

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

The Tears That Taught Me — Morgan Richard Olivier

The Tears That Taught Me

Morgan Richard Olivier

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Moon Jar — Didi Jackson

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

For Them I Cried Poems (and More) of Tribute, Protest, and Triumph — Mittie K. Carey

For Them I Cried Poems (and More) of Tribute, Protest, and Triumph

Mittie K. Carey

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

School of the Arts Poems — Mark Doty

School of the Arts Poems

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

The Unfolding An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself — Arielle Estoria

The Unfolding An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself

Arielle Estoria

Themes: Inspirational & Religious • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Inspirational & Religious, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes — the same threads that run through Certain Magical Acts by Alice Notley. Among the authors featured: Mary Karr, Luci Shaw, Chessy Normile, Hala Alyan, and others.

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