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Do you read poetry?

Does anyone anymore?

by Anonymousreply 20October 17, 2019 1:11 PM

Yes. I’m currently reading Robert Frost.

by Anonymousreply 1October 5, 2019 4:08 PM

I have renewed reading poetry. This year I read Frank O'Hara, some small hardcover collections by subject, an Oxford anthology of comic verse. I have some Wendy Cope volumes.

by Anonymousreply 2October 5, 2019 4:11 PM

Yes. Last night I read from the works of Edna St. Vincent Millay. A contemporary of Robert Frost, I believe, R1.

by Anonymousreply 3October 5, 2019 4:14 PM

Do song lyrics count?

by Anonymousreply 4October 5, 2019 4:46 PM

Does anybody still wear a hat?

by Anonymousreply 5October 5, 2019 4:47 PM

I'm fairly widely read but not in poetry.

by Anonymousreply 6October 5, 2019 4:52 PM

Occasionally Walt Whitman and ee Cummings - but in general, no. It is a fading art form. Probably because it’s way too slow. I mean, we don’t even take time to write anymore, AFAIK.

by Anonymousreply 7October 5, 2019 5:03 PM

Poetry will not die. It's never popular. Itivrs on because of what it is.

by Anonymousreply 8October 5, 2019 5:16 PM

Poetry is what language is for.

by Anonymousreply 9October 5, 2019 5:30 PM

What can be explained is not poetry.

by Anonymousreply 10October 5, 2019 5:33 PM

I

Do.

by Anonymousreply 11October 5, 2019 5:35 PM

Who

You?

by Anonymousreply 12October 5, 2019 5:43 PM

I read DataLounge poetry:

MARY! MARY! Quite Contrary.

by Anonymousreply 13October 5, 2019 5:48 PM

Evidently not, or they wouldn't have given the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan.

by Anonymousreply 14October 5, 2019 5:53 PM

I’ve been rereading my Tory Dent. Autumn is the time to reap.

by Anonymousreply 15October 5, 2019 7:30 PM

It's funny, I used to devour poetry & long complex novels (for my age group) in highschool. Then in College I ill-advisedly took some bad pills from a quack Doctor for a skin condition and became very depressed, which killed my desire to read. I'm like a different person now.

Decades on I retain song lyrics better than anything else in my life and graze on short stories just fine, but I haven't ever returned to my enthusiastic teen habit of cover-to-cover barrelling through writing. It's not for lack of time or effort, I just can't get back into the right mindset. I fall into fugue just thinking about it. I figure I either sustained lobe damage or something in my soul just died after the tablets, but who knows. Perhaps it's to do with the jading of age, too (at least I hope so, that would make me feel less abnormal...)

I miss loving, reading and writing poetry. But now I look at NY Times poem or a slam video and feel my mind blank and stomach sink, as if I'm physically just unable to take it in.

by Anonymousreply 16October 17, 2019 1:01 PM

I condole you r16. But that’s just aging.

by Anonymousreply 17October 17, 2019 1:05 PM

no, i paint my life in prose

by Anonymousreply 18October 17, 2019 1:07 PM

I don't but I want to. Any recommendation? Something neither too complex nor too easy - just to get me into it.

R16 If you seriously want to start again, get a reading partner for a while or join a club. It will get you started. My friends and I did this when we started college - it worked. Also choose someone you know properly and are likely to run into- not someone who you can ghost, because then you will exactly do that and not read.

by Anonymousreply 19October 17, 2019 1:08 PM

I have hated poetry since childhood . I skip all poetry.

by Anonymousreply 20October 17, 2019 1:11 PM
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