Mary Oliver just recently passed away in 2019, and her poetry blossomed over the internet as the world mourned. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver But if you’re willing to give it another shot, I got you covered. That piece is just so not the right choice to inspire a lifelong love of the poetic form. On behalf of all poets, I’d just like to formally apologize that your high school English teacher made you read William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” and now you hate anything that rhymes. So, I figured I’d round up a list of poetry books for beginners, people who say they can’t get into it, or don’t understand it, or even hate it. Those kind of cheesy Instagram photos that try to be inspiring and have a picture of the ocean in the background? Poetry. Poems are also all around us, whether we name it so or not. Poetry is a vital tool for the marginalized to speak truth to power, and has been since its inception. I feel like this genre has been wrongfully construed as an art solely for the academic elite, when the opposite is true. I’ve heard it time and time again: “I just don’t get poetry.” As someone who will be getting their master’s degree in poetry next fall, this breaks my heart.
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