• Kamirose@beehaw.orgM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    ·
    1 year ago

    Margaret Atwood’s Dearly helped me through a time of grief.

    Danez Smith’s Don’t Call Us Dead is a collection that deals with police violence against black people, and about AIDS in the queer community. One poem in it made me instantly cry.

  • darknesslieshere
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    Not really someone who reads poetry, but I loved most of Robert Frost’s works that I read. You probably have read ‘The Road Not Taken’.

  • Humanoid@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    A few of my favorite poets that come to mind:

    Charles Baudelaire

    Arthur Rimbaud

    Paul Verlaine

    Ezra Pound

    Gregory Corso

    Sappho

    Sylvia Plath

    Li Bai

    • Nullroad@beehaw.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      I don’t really consider myself a great poetic connoisseur and I’m not versed in the classics, I just pick a collection now and then let it sit with me for a bit.

      With that context on my reading habits: I picked up and enjoyed the collection “Pine”, by Julia Koets.

  • SlamDrag@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 year ago

    “The World Doesn’t End” by Charles Simic

    “Deaf Republic” by Ilya Kaminsky

    “Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude” by Ross Gay

    “Words for Empty and Words for Full” by Bob Hicok

    “Life on Mars” by Tracy K. Smith

    Those are books that have personally influenced me deeply. Other poets I like but haven’t read deeply are Rainer Maria Rilke, T.S. Elliot, Wendel Berry, W.H. Auden.