Here I am again – attempting #52poetry again! At the last party, I started in the middle of the year and then I got a new job that didn’t really allow for extracurricular anything and was relatively meh about the whole challenge.
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Sidenote: I am going to also attempt a general (all prose) reading challenge. I am a very slow, slow reader. So one (1) book a month is the absolute best I can do. And if I’m feeling adventurous, I might read two!
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This week I read:
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 by Lucille Clifton
My fave poet! Always a pleasure to read Lucille Clifton; I had an outpouring of “reply” and “in response” poems of my own. I am particularly fond of her style of line and rhyme, which I know is (as self-centered as it is) because hers is so similar to my own. Imagine my delight stumbling upon her in graduate school!
I feel as if I’m supposed to be decisive and pick a single favorite poem. But meh, no can do. From “new poems (2000),” I was most drawn to “libation,” “what i think when i ride the train,” and “birthday 1999.” Of course, the image of trains is always so compelling to/for me. Overall, though, the chapter “from next (1988)” really hit me the hardest and garnered the most emotional responses.
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