from webreader

This book might have said what it said in half the words. Poetry, I guess, means not having to abridge your temptation to gush; and dry brevity might not be the way to address poetry; but could we ...

from jesslyncummings

I wanted to like this book a lot more than I actually did. I can't figure out what it was that I didn't love about it, except that in the last 5 chapters or so (the depressing chapters, I suppose) ...

from EileenWYSIWYG

I loved this book. Hirsch's love for poets and poetry was infectious for me, and I found myself digging up all kinds of poetry online while I was reading it and after I was finished. I have another...

from macheartist

This book helped me fall in love with poetry. Spend some time with it. Savor your relationship with poetry as it guides you through some fine poems. Then spend a little time with poetry each day, a...

from wealhtheowwylfing

I mostly used this book to discover new poems to love. Among them: Yehuda Amichai's "A Pity. We Were Such a Good Invention," Delmore Schwartz's "Baudelaire," the last lines of Robert Frost's "Deser...