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Readers who finished Debths by Susan Howe and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Death, Grief, Loss, Women Authors, Essays, and Subjects & Themes.

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You Are Only Just Beginning Lessons for the Journey Ahead

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Essays

Light for the World to See

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Essays

Collected Poems 1943-2004

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Essays

Requeening Poems

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Essays

Nox

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Out of Order

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Smother Poems

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Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

Todo lo Que Necesito Existe Ya en Mí (Poesía) / Home Body (Poems)

Rupi Kaur

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

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The Witch Doesn’t Burn in this One

Amanda Lovelace

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#11

A Nail the Evening Hangs on

Monica Sok

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#12

Obit Poems

Victoria Chang

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#13

DMZ Colony

Don Mee Choi

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Subjects & Themes

#14

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

Themes: Women Authors • Essays • Subjects & Themes

#15

Happy, Okay? Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival (for Fans of Her by Pierre Alex Jeanty Or Sylvester Mcnutt)

M. J. Fievre

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#16

Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party

Chessy Normile

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#17

What the Moon Gave Her

Christi Steyn

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#18

Dream Apartment

Lisa Olstein

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#19

Good Stock Strange Blood

Dawn Lundy Martin

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#20

Old Songs Poems

Olga Sedakova

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#21

Future Rounds the Curve

Patricia Barone

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#22

The Master Letters Poems

Lucie Brock-Broido

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

#23

Radicle, Or When the World Lived Inside Us Poems

Stephanie Catudal

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

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Turning to Wallpaper Poems and Art

Heidi Wong

Themes: Death, Grief, Loss • Women Authors • Subjects & Themes

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Debths by Susan Howe. Connected by Death, Grief, Loss, Women Authors, Essays. Authors featured include Edward Hirsch, Morgan Harper Nichols, Kwame Alexander, Richard Wilbur, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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