Actually, I love this whole post. Thanks for the inspiration!

YES! I do the same thing usually. I love poetry in context!

Nope. Anna…Hempstead Branch. I don’t know how good she actually is, but she makes such perfect sense to me about thing I really like thinking about anyway, that I thoroughly enjoy it.

Glad you enjoyed them!

There’s still time! And I’ve really loved seeing such a wide variety of poems all over the blogosphere. Plus, you know, April isn’t the only month in which poetry exists. You could be a nonconformist and post about it in May. 😉

Review it, review it! I am sure you won’t come off as a dunce at all. People’s reactions to poetry do seem to come from a visceral place rather than a cerebral one (or maybe that’s just me) – you can’t be wrong about your tastes!

I feel Bernard would have very little patience for Sylvia Plath. 😛

I like Plath’s “Tulips” as well, and this other poem I can’t remember the title of. It’s got a line in it about floating, two cork dolls, inseparable. As a trend, I prefer those of her poems with longer lines, which is a silly way to judge them, but there you go.

I don’t think you’re narcissistic, Anna Banana. Everyone’s brains do that. Who’s the poet? Anna Akhmatova? Anna Barbauld? Anna Seward? Anna Swir?

My official guess is Anna Swir. Yes? No?

It is a pretty grim poem. I thought of posting another one by this poet instead, but most of his are grim in one way or another, and this one’s my favorite. I love the line “the city will always pursue you”.