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pickPoetry is still something I'm getting my head round but this does have some powerful pieces in here. Imagery and feeling we're coming through as you would suddenly realise what she was talking about. Anyone got other suggestions for a still poetry newborn who wishes to learn?
Still quoting from last month's poet, Solmaz Sharif. Throughout the collection, she uses terms & phrases from the U.S. Dept of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, which usually show up integrated into poems but always capitalized. Here, she uses them as the starting point for a series of mini-poems. #poetrychallenge2018 Read more about it here: http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-solmaz-sharif-20160627-snap-sto...
I know it's February now, but I still have to share some of these great poems I read in January! #poetrychallenge2018
I whizzed through my second poet/poetry collection for January of the #poetrychallenge2018 during the #24in48 readathon, so I'll be posting a few quotes from it today. Sorry they're all via a beat-up old kindle, it was technically returned to the library already. 😂 Solmaz Sharif, the poet, is Iranian-American and her poems are political in the best of ways.
Well, I have to read this on a super old kindle with disconnected wifi because it's already been returned to the library! I will really appreciate the ability to highlight on a touchscreen after this adventure. It's beautiful so far though, and pairs depressingly well with Home Fire, which I'm reading for #LMPBC. #poetrychallenge2018
This is a very useful note! (I always read poetry horizontally on my phone so that I get rid of some of these issues).
So I checked out Look just before January but ended up deciding to read my first poet in the first half of the month and so on...only to realize that this expires in just over 24 hours and someone has a hold on it...so...BETTER READ FAST!! 112 pages of poetry in one day...am I capable? 😳 #poetrychallenge2018
Happy New Year, #poetrychallenge2018 folks! I'm so excited to start this challenge off right! I'm still finishing Ben Lerner's The Hatred of Poetry as a fun and funny way to start a year of poetry reading, but these are my real choices for January! Both John Ashbery and Solmaz Sharif were on my shortlist, but when I read a comparison between them in a review of Sharif's collection I knew they'd be an interesting pair. #poetrychallenge
I need a complete do-over of 2016 because I missed this BRILLIANT poet and her amazing book. https://solmazsharif.com/poems/ #litsypoetry365 @SharonGoforth @Graywolfpress
Someone broke into one of my favorite bookstores in the country, Brazos Bookstore. WHO STEALS FROM A BOOKSTORE? If a bunch of us each buy a book from them today I bet we could really easily make up the money they lost from the break-in.
I bought a copy of Solmaz Sharif's Look. Poetry for me, love and some money for Brazos.
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