[stylist] poetry book recommendations

[vejas]

What kind of poems do you like?
I can't really give you suggesttions till you know-do you like 
funny, off-the-wall poems, or serious poems with meaning?
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ashley Bramlett" <bookwormahb at earthlink.net
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 29 May 2012 19:12:15 -0400
Subject: [stylist] poetry book recommendations

Hi all,

Most of you seem to like poetry and are poets.  I want to learn 
more about this.  I did not have much instruction in poetry in 
school.  We covered a few types but not many; we learned about 
rhyme schemes like how you assign a letter to each line to see 
the pattern.  I wrote some poetry in elementary and middle school 
but none in high school.  I have written a little on my own not 
for a grade though.  I did not know some poem forms existed until 
I was on this list, such as the sestina.  I also heard about the 
haibun, tanka, and tankabun here.
I learned a little about forms as well in my intro creative 
writing class in college.  But our focus was more on short 
stories.

So I want to read and learn more.  Which books can you recommend 
for poetry with classic poets and well known poems? I prefer 
braille because as I’ve said before, listening to a poem does 
not let me see the shape, the stanzas, line breaks, punctuation, 
etc.  I was hoping there was  a collection of well known poems by 
several poets.  Is that called an anthology?
I’m thinking classic poets; they are deceased but well known 
poets.  People like Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Emily 
Dickenson, and Longfellow.  Not sure his first name.  If a 
collection exists, I can read several types of poems by classic 
poets rather than getting several books by one poet.

Also, if there is a book that explains poetry and gives examples 
that would be nice as well.

Thanks.

Ashley
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