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The Poetry Reader's Toolkit: A Guide to Reading and Understanding Poetry by Marc Polonsky
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
A fine textbook for getting started with poetry. It has the vocab you need to describe poetry, as well as poems it uses as examples. It tested my academic reading skills and my taste. Pretty easy to read for a text book.
It's pretty old (1998), and seems to have a pretty old view of the literary cannon, but it was a great jumping off point for me to feel more confident reading poetry. (By old, I mean literally. There are some diverse voices, women and Black folks represented, as well as some international poems translated.) There were some poets I did not vibe with, but some I did. Because of this, I know what book to pick up next.
This is a book teaching to READ poetry, not WRITE poetry, but there are some cool prompts.
It's pretty old (1998), and seems to have a pretty old view of the literary cannon, but it was a great jumping off point for me to feel more confident reading poetry. (By old, I mean literally. There are some diverse voices, women and Black folks represented, as well as some international poems translated.) There were some poets I did not vibe with, but some I did. Because of this, I know what book to pick up next.
This is a book teaching to READ poetry, not WRITE poetry, but there are some cool prompts.