My 16 year old little sister wants a bunch of "Milk and Honey" tier garbage poetry for Christmas. (Milk and Honey isn't actually on the list anymore because she came to own it already, but that doesn't exactly help)
Does anyone have suggestions for poetry that's a slight step up from that? Something that's not too challenging, but also not total unredeemable horseshit?
I'm going to gift her the instagram trash poem books too to make her happy, but I should at least try to make her less of a total pleb, right?
Nathaniel Ortiz
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Zachary Mitchell
Give her Byron, he was a mega Chad so she'll love it
Benjamin Diaz
Yeah, be a good brother and get it for her; I'm not sure what a slight step up from Rupee Core would be.
I'd suggest Robert Frost and a small collection of John Keats. If you're concerned with the level of challenging-ness, you ought to go with Frost then. He gud
Again, you're a good brother :-) if you're a woman, then you're a good sister :-)
Elijah Harris
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Logan Torres
Bo Burnham has a book of poetry that's like a bitter Shel Silverstein.
Sir Phillip Sidney has maybe the most accessible love sonnets around.
everyone loves ee cummings (or they should at least)
James Myers
Don't try to force her to read the dull shit you read, but sneak an actual good writer into the mix. If it's meant to be, she'll drift in the other direction.
Ayden Hughes
lol I did the same thing. got my 19 year old sister the cringey trash poetry that she asked for but also Bukowski. Not a huge fan of Bukowski myself, but seems like the type of poet who would appeal to people just getting into poetry. i know it was a wasted effort though because she didn't read either one to completion. my sister always requests poetry and i know she only reads a handful of the poems and then lets the book sit on her shelf
Jaxson Powell
first, you don't have to read a collection like a novel
second, Bukowski might actually be worse than Rupi
Ayden Morris
>bukowski next time try gifting her a book by a good author
Liam Thompson
Also give her a biography on Byron. She'll probably flick her bean every night to the accounts of his sexual exploits.
Gavin Evans
I enjoy Bukowski's novels. Some of my favorite in the fictional biography genre.
Ethan Nelson
Thank you for the suggestions! I will definitely look into those
Not sure how much Byron's chad mentality will appeal to her Is Byron poetry lewd?
Thank you user, I try and do my best
That's how I was planning on handling it, hence why she's still getting her shit books too
Yeah I guess I can't physically prevent her from reading Rupi or browsing pinterest, but I think we at least ought to try So far I'm planning to look for short volumes, nothing too daunting and whatnot I haven't read any Bukowski yet myself and with how mixed people are on him I think it might be smart to get a look at him myself first before gifting him away
Nathaniel Sanchez
Good luck!
Nathaniel Smith
Richard Siken and Ocean Vuong More stimulating than Kaur, but definitely something a 16 year old would enjoy.
Michael Morales
Get her a self-published collection of Veeky Forums's fake Rupi poetry. She won't be able to tell the difference.
Landon Price
You're a good sibling user. My runner-up choice: The Black Riders and Other Lines by Stephen Crane. First pick: Deaths and Entrances, by Dylan Thomas. Here's a sample poemme:
In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart.
Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.
Joshua Brooks
american teen girls seem to love rumi
Benjamin Hernandez
>her poetry like totally embodies my mindset like all her poems are like omg me too #metoo #rupigroupie
Ian Ward
it's easily understandable, with little to no complex structure, and applies to nearly everyone in some shape or form. It's also #aesthetic.
Get her modern poetry (Siken, Glück). I guarantee at her age she'll have virtually no interest in the analytical. Meter means nothing to high schoolers.
(Carson's translations of Sappho in If Not, Winter; Whitman's Leaves of Grass; & Neruda's anthologies might be good segues into more classical form)
Luke Baker
rumi not rupi fucking plebs i swear
Wyatt Robinson
To quote an Irishman: "Get that bitch some Rilke"
Isaiah Robinson
Wait people actually read poetry? LMAO I bet you read philosophy too!
Brody Bailey
Good post
Josiah Phillips
Just because I didn't correct them you assume I don't know Rupi's name? Jinkies.