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Dawnie Walton • The Final Revival of Opal & Nev: Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022
a small collection to return to again and again, and for anyone just beginning to fall in love with poetry. wherever you are in your life, one of these will find you.
and don’t skip the last slide — it’s a list of the longer ones that will stay with you.
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poetry, poems to... See more
instagram.comLater I would see that my mother’s broken English was far more beautiful than my perfect one. She had a strong voice, writers would say. ‘I got no wave’ is so much more evocative than ‘My phone isn’t getting reception’.
Dina Nayeri • The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Neruda’s 2 dictionary poems:
Dictionary, you are not a
tomb, sepulcher, grave,
tumulus, mausoleum,
but guard and keeper,
hidden fire,
groves of rubies,
living eternity
of essence,
depository of language
... See moreDictionary, let one hand
of your thousand hands, one
of your thousand emeralds,
a
single drop
of your virginal springs,
one grain
from your
magnanimous granaries,
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favorite poems
Alara • 4 cards
poems
Amy Zhen • 1 card
He recited “Puerto Rico, Puerto Pobre,” a poem by Pablo Neruda.