I defy someone to tell me poetry is boring. ( )

At some point in my public school career, I must have read a poem or two by e. e. cummings. Wanting to read more poetry in general, I picked this book up because I remember liking the author, even if I could not remember a single poem of his. I was not disappointed. This volume is organized by the poems’ themes, and each chapter has a nice bit of explanation from the editor at the beginning, which was nice for a poetry amateur like me. While I found the Cubist poems incomprehensible, I enjoyed the playful and natural poems, as well as the love poems. The political poems, on the other hand, I did not enjoy, but then I generally do not like political poems. All in all, I enjoyed this book and would like to read more poetry by this author. ( )

my favorite poet of all time. i wish males understood how powerful words like these are to those of the opposite sex ;) ( )