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Feb. 8th, 2003 02:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheI stuck my nose into seven poetry books tonight.
Reading good poetry is rather daunting. It's like a power you can't control.
Peeked into Atlantis, by Mark Doty; Strange Relation, Daniel Hall; Funk Lore, Amiri Baraka; A Wave, John Ashbery; Medicine, Amy Gerstler; and two books by Nikki Giovanni. Everything except the Giovanni was good. Good enough that I had to intentionally set books down because input was getting overloaded.
This was the first time I was exposed to Baraka's work. Damn. I see now why he has the following he does.
Reading good poetry is rather daunting. It's like a power you can't control.
Peeked into Atlantis, by Mark Doty; Strange Relation, Daniel Hall; Funk Lore, Amiri Baraka; A Wave, John Ashbery; Medicine, Amy Gerstler; and two books by Nikki Giovanni. Everything except the Giovanni was good. Good enough that I had to intentionally set books down because input was getting overloaded.
This was the first time I was exposed to Baraka's work. Damn. I see now why he has the following he does.