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Can someone give me reccomendations on good poetry books?

Can someone give me reccomendations on good poetry books?

Haley #recommend #poetry

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Kate

Start with the Norton Anthology of Poetry to see what you like

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Dave

Any book by Billy Collins.

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Bonnie

Yes

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Jean

Mary Oliver

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Mikah

Agree! Felicity is one of my favorites! If you like her, also try Ted Kooser’s Splitting an Order or Delights and Shadows.

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Claudia

Yes, another vote for Norton Anthology of poetry. I just finished reading Selected poems by Oscar Wilde. Fabulous!

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Raeanne

The witch doesn’t burn in this one by Amanda Lovelace

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Kenny

Don’t know anything about it but I love the title.

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Raeanne

it’s the second book in her “Woman are some kind of magic” series. The first one is called” The princess saves herself in this one” . They encourage woman and girls to take control of and write their own stories of their lives. My daughter is 15 and has both. Make great gifts for the women in your life!!

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James

Billy Collins, Robert Frost, Howard Nemerov.

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Mikah

Also, try Tracy K. Smith, the newest Poet Laureate.

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Nancy

Poems by Robert Frost?

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Kim

The Road not taken by Robert Frost.

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Divya

It’s my favorite one.. also highly recommend anything by Robert Frost

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Ravi

Start from Robert Frost…..His poems are awesome

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Deborah

Mary Oliver.

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Sarah

Live for a living by Buddy Wakefield

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Miles

Sylvia Plath

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Catherine
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Nancy

But this is a story.

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Dennis

Sure Signs by Ted Kooser

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Shannon

Mary Oliver

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Jade

Henri Cole. Deborah Digges. Elizabeth Bishop. Galway Kinnell. Rita Dove. Lorna Goodison. Wendell Berry.

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Amber

Rupi Kaur and Sarah Kay, who are more contemporary.

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Jessica

Patricia Smith

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Amber

Also Sabrina Benaim

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Linda

Wendell Berry, Billy Collins, Marge Piercy, Stephen Dunn, Jim Harrison

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Paul

There are some good anthologies if you want to seek our poets you love. One of my favorites is “The Open Door”, a 100th anniversary retrospective from Poetry Magazine. I’d also recommend any collection of Wallace Stevens or Robert Frost. Emily Dickinson is amazing too.

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Sally

Hafiz, Rumi, Mary Oliver

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Bianca

salt. by Nayyirah Waheed, Ariel by Sylvia Plath, any collection that has W.H. Auden

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Joanie

Trapline by Caroline Goodwin

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Andrea

The Princess Saves Herself in this One by Amanda Lovelace

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Calli

Danelle Lejuene

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Ergene

Pale Fire by Nabokov

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Barbara

anything by Mark Nepo

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Peg

Audre Lorde.

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Miriam

The Rattle Bag edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes and The Norman Introduction to Poetry by J. Paul Hunter

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Mark

Ariel ..Sylvia Plath..will rearrange the furniture in your head

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Jonathan

Cavafy.

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Jonathan

Mary Oliver

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Brandon

I will look for you amongst the stars

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Johanna

Emily Dickinson is my favorite poet

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Andi

Jessica Piazza, Lucie Brock-Broido, Denis Johnson, Marie Howe, Elizabeth Willis, Frank O’Hara, WS Merwin, Brigit Pegeen Kelly

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Jade

robert frost

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TG

Lang Leav books.

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Sarah

Nikki Giovanni

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Steven

The Penguin Book Of English Verse. The Penguin Book Of American Verse.

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Betsy

I understand Patricia Lockwood‘s two books are quite something. I just read her memoir „priestdaddy“ and it was at times a fall into poetry. The rest was funny or tragic. One of her poetry books is https://www.amazon.com/Motherland-Fatherland-Homelandsexuals-Penguin-Poets-ebook/dp/B00GAH3R0M/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520840016&sr=1-3&keywords=patricia+lockwood

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Karen

I think there was a very good thread about this exact question earlier in the week.

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Hincu

My favourite is Fernando Pessoa. Second best is Pablo Neruda. And then, Reiner Maria Rilke. I usually go for collections of poetry, like their cumulated work, or selections of their best work. Try A Little Larger than the Entire Universe by Pessoa. I adore him. If you want to read his prose as well, since his prose is highly poetic, I recommend The Book of Disquiet. 🙂

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Kenny

Good shout on both. The Book of Disquiet is a masterpiece.

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Hincu

@Kenny Gosh, it’s so nice to see other people appreciate it too! When I first discovered it, I knew nothing of Pessoa, but that book really opened my eyes. 🙂

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Cynthia

Treasury of Poems
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Best Loved Poets

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Denise

I was just just at Barnes & Noble yesterday, and went to the poetry section. I like discovering poets who I hadn’t heard of or read their work before. Love poems that find me thinking about life deeply.

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Debbi

Billy Collins

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Jem

WH Auden, Mary Oliver, Carrie Shipers, Dorianne Laux, Billy Collins Jeanne Lohmann.

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Joseph

Sharon Olds

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Maitri

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

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可能砸

interested

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Komet

ISBN: 0451509595 (paperback)

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Sherry

W. H. Auden!!

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Komet
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Komet

LAURIS EDMOND was a poet from New Zealand.

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Trisha

Wendell Berry. Jane Kenyon. Richard Wilbur. Mary Oliver. Might check out Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems.

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Zoe

The Emergency Poet or anything by Mary Oliver.

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Betsy

I an currently intrigued with Patricia Locksmith

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Brett

‘The Mersey Sound’ by Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten.

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