I know this is a stupid question but...

Fuck, I've been wondering the same. Met many "poetesses" citing this

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Wow.... This really made me think.....

>>8557449
I have been involved with three "poetic" girls and each of them have had this book. What's the deal?

>>8557465
I don't know about my daughters, but my wife's son might like this.

>>8557449
>lower case title
>written by a nonwhite woman
It's like they aren't trying to be taken seriously

>>8557465

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNrJa_uXsE

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>>8557449
>>8557455
>>8557465
>>8557472
>>8557475
Fucking idiots women are, am I right guys?

>>8557449

FOR THE LAST BLOODY TIME, stop adulterating our board with this shit, and start paying no mind or pity to it because poetry's notoriety is determined by how much it appends to current stigma like this one

>muh feminism and hurr durr ur a misogynist

>>8557493

Hi roastie. Poast feet please

>>8557495
Jesus Christ dude chill out its just a bit of fun postin

>>8557493
Shut the fuck up you autistic contrarian faggot. It was a genuine question.

>>8557514
k sorry, sire, will engage keenly in misogyny now

>>8557528
Fuck off you roastie bitch
>>8557514
Is it ok if I'm gay but a permavirgin?

>>8557449

Actual OP here

Fuck ok I have read the first few pages (which is obviously all that is required to judge a book), but it seems its just "muh abused woman" "muh society teaches me to not value myself".

This is like gold to women who did a bunch of slutty shit then want to say they "dindu nuffin".

here is one

i've had sex she said
but I don't know
what making love
feels like


that about explains the book.....

I'm sure its harmless, right. Maybe point them bitches in the direction of Anne Carson and they'll learn somethin

>>8557535
if you're verily a woman, I'm lauding you right now

>>8557535
>those dramatic line breaks
Why do we let women publish poetry

>>8557545
Same reason we let them do anything. Hope of sex.

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i've had sex she said
but I don't know
what making love
feels like

Is this actually in the book, or are you trolling me? This is of a caliber that would, if pitched to Lifetime as a movie, would make the prospective director sigh, drop the script it was written in, and say to the author, "Do you really expect me to film someone saying this shallow, cliche, asinine bullshit?"
I'm not kidding, this is bullied late 90's tween girl blog level garbage. Pic related, I am that mad.

>>8557597

https://books.google.com/books?id=WoWfCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

yes

>>8557614
>the hurting
>the loving
>the breaking
>the healing
Holy baby jesus

>>8557465
I like how she posted that on 4/20. Hitler would be proud.

>>8557614
>it is in your blood
>in my veins
>tell me how i'm
>supposed to forget
Is this about aids?

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>>8557495
Does anyone else on this board remember when "notoriety" was the noun form of "notorious" rather than a synonym for "popularity," or am I just that fucking hopelessly old?

>>8557625
if only

>>8557449

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0HV-eE6qmVGOS1ZMEVURlBlVEk/view?usp=sharing

if you want to read the cancer check it out

only two enemies remained
the patriarchy
and white males


What did she mean by this?

Women are weird, why can't they read the good shit like Rilke or Goethe, maybe Neruda, even Trakl for christs sake

your body
is a museum
of natural disasters
can you grasp how
stunning that is

Why did she press enter, bros?

>>8557665
>>8557665
I spit out my food
Jesus
It's like reddit and tumblr wrote a poem together

>>8557672
Women love neruda senpai

>>8557683

that isnt really in the book but probably was in the original draft

>>8557682
mate the only criterion for modern poetry is that it has to slightly look like an actual poem

Basic stuff like metre doesn't matter anymore, that's contemporary poetry for you

>>8557686
Sophisticated barefeet women in cafes like Neruda. Most women like Neruda read to them. No one impressed with Milk and Honey has read Neruda.

>Anon, why is this guy so obsessed with bread?

>>8557686
The reason I have a copy of Neruda's love poetry lying around

If you
can not handle me at
my worst
you
don't deserve me
at
my best

Amazon reveals this steaming turd was self-published. Phew! That offers at least some relief.

cancer
if it was not supposed to be there
would not be growing
in our bodies in the first place

>>8557717

wow.... Now I really get what it's like to be a womyn....

I guess #imwithher now

>>8557724
Who buys self-published books anway? They're always terrible. Women are so gullible, jeez

>>8557682
Holy... I want more...

It's really awful. You'll read Facebook-tier issue-of-the-day feminists platitudes, only this time with even more line breaks!

>>8557717

I never got this quote. Is it a coping mechanism for when girls get dumped because they acted like complete cunts?

>>8557988

in essence, yes

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do people over the age of 19 really read this and think it's good? I saw this book in person at the bookstore and was perplexed...literally worse quality than pinterest inspirational quotes
grill here, my only context for her is seeing other girls make fun of her

>>8557535
Really makes me think

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if i knew what
safety looked like
i would have spent
less time falling into
arms that were not

>>8557563
Genuine question. Do you actually garner attraction from women? Its always the white knights trying to look like le mature man that doesn't make fun of women that are the biggest virgins.

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>>8558222
checked

>>8557717
Translates as:
>You should treat me like a princess 24/7 and I will not tolerate you having a bad day or needing time to yourself
>but you are also not allowed to call me out for acting like a raging bitch when I'm on my period because you don't know my pain
>#equality

>>8558262


yea but also

>>I don't have to act like a princess 24/7 and I will not tolerate being hated for having a bad day or needing time to myself
is what non psychos mean that quote by

>>8557627
Ur old lol

Someone pls post the cancer train video...

Reeee

https://youtu.be/5vNHiQMn8yE

Reeee

>>8558638
am i just drunk or are these camera angles and her enunciations totally incoherent?>

>>8557702
>Sophisticated barefeet women in cafes like Neruda
my dick twitched a little

Yeah, it's pretty bad. What more did you expect? It's a best seller. 9/10 times they suck. The general population has horrible taste. This is what you feed them.

Good women writers: Sharon Olds, Jorie Graham, Louise Gluck, Sylvia Plath

Add to the list. No memes like OP's.

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>>8557449
why is shit like this becoming so popular, when there's much better content out there? i've been reading this recently, it's pretty good, some definite similarities to Dylan Thomas

>>8557661
I am sensitive to feminist poetry but this shit is pretty lousy. It is like a book length PSA with more melodrama than anything on lifetime

>>8557614
I think the worst thing about this book is its lack of real empowerment. The book is constantly repeating over and over again how weak and defenseless women are. This book is just heaped in pity and no self worth.

>>8557717
You go, girl!

>>8557614
Holy shit I can't believe this is really real.

sex takes the consent of two
if one person is lying there not doing anything
cause they are not ready
or not in the mood
or simply dont want to
yet the other is having sex
with their body its not love
it is rape


Well, bros? PSA or Poetry? I could have sworn I saw this on a sexual assault awareness poster in my dorm freshman year. Really made me think.....

>>8559071

Wew lad

>>8558751
Djuna Barnes

>>8558713
also the hand gestures.

>>8558751
dorothy parker
virginia woolf
only one of the bronte sisters but no one knows which

St. Vincent lyrics are better than this.

trying to convince myself

i am allowed

to take up space

is like writing with

my left hand

when i was born

to use my right

i don’t know why

i split myself open

for others knowing

sewing myself up

hurts this much

afterward

each one makes me cringe more than the last

>>8559878
all the brontes own
except brendan or whatever the brother's name was

made it to 20 seconds in
her being Canadian explains a lot though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxdG3Pvq2k

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In case you have forgotten what real poetry is like, let me refresh your memory:

On Another's Sorrow - William Blake

CAN I see another’s woe,
And not be in sorrow too?
Can I see another’s grief,
And not seek for kind relief?

Can I see a falling tear, 5
And not feel my sorrow’s share?
Can a father see his child
Weep, nor be with sorrow fill’d?

Can a mother sit and hear
An infant groan, an infant fear? 10
No, no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!

And can He who smiles on all
Hear the wren with sorrows small,
Hear the small bird’s grief and care, 15
Hear the woes that infants bear,

And not sit beside the nest,
Pouring pity in their breast;
And not sit the cradle near,
Weeping tear on infant’s tear; 20

And not sit both night and day,
Wiping all our tears away?
O, no! never can it be!
Never, never can it be!

He doth give His joy to all; 25
He becomes an infant small;
He becomes a man of woe;
He doth feel the sorrow too.

Think not thou canst sigh a sigh,
And thy Maker is not by; 30
Think not thou canst weep a tear,
And thy Maker is not near.

O! He gives to us His joy
That our grief He may destroy;
Till our grief is fled and gone 35
He doth sit by us and moan.

>>8560901
It's nice to see some Blake on here, he's wonderful.

>>8559878
Emily was the talented Bronte

>>8560908
AT THE GATES OF URIZEN!!!

>>8560369
>Canadian

What's happening over there that this is normal for them?

>>8560369
oh jesus....just stop.

>>8557682
It slows down your reading.

>>8560901
>rhyming woe with too
>rhyming never can it be with never can it be
>ending lines with numbers for no reason

>>8557665
holy... i want more...

>>8562969
>what is a half rhyme
>what is repetition
>what are line numbers

wew lad

>>8563100
>>what is a half rhyme
>>what is repetition
Laziness.
>>what are line numbers
Unecessary for anyone with kindergarten arithmetic skills.

>>8557672
I'm a woman and I adore Neruda <3

"I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees" <3 ^_^

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>>8563120
>He thinks rhyme is just used for the sake of the form
>He thinks repition is there just to reassert the same point
>He's never read a long poem before

Mate you really need to slow down with poetry, maybe try reading an introductory textbook or something.

Do you think when Tamburlaine is calling out 'my sweet Zenocrate' again and again, it is just because Marlowe was being lazy?

>>8563173
>long

>>8563181
Yeah, the Blake poem above isn't long, but considering the numbers at the end of the line to be the author's insertions, and not because the anon just copied and pasted the poem from somewhere, is remarkably stupid.

Someone who has read long poetry from a book before, would know that.

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>>8563200
>considering the numbers at the end of the line to be the author's insertions, and not because the anon just copied and pasted the poem from somewhere, is remarkably stupid

>>8562969
>This post
Crying emoji face

>>8563207
Someone's struggling with words again.

>>8563220
Someone's struggling with bants again.

>>8557625
Sounds like emo lyrics.

>>8562036
idk, except that the Canadians seem to have a tolerance for corniness unknown to the rest of North America

also
what is up with non-black spoken word people adapting like, a thread below to straight up the verbal equivalent of black face

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>>8557614
>https://books.google.com/books?id=WoWfCgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

>WE WIMMIN R NOT VAPID/VICTIMS
>this

literally mfw

>>8557661
I'm narrating this in it's entirety, maybe.

Youtube upload also maybe.

I purchased this book so that I could lend a book to shallow women and make them think I'm cool or whatever. It actually worked, 10/10 would recommend

>>8557633
kek

>>8557614
>the very thought of you
>has my legs spread apart
>like an easel with a canvas
>begging for art

>sex takes the consent of two
>if one person is lying there not doing anything
>cause they are not ready
>or not in the mood
>or simply don't want to
>yet the other is having sex
>with their body it's not love
>it is rape

the second one isnt even a poem its a poorly written sentence defining rape

>our back
>have stories
>no books have
>the spine to
>carry

- women of color

Listen hear you little shit, and let me tell you a story about a soldier in Afghanistan.

This soldier has just killed someone today. It was his first, and will most likely not be his last. He had to kill him because he had opened fire and killed his friend. He may have made that friend during training, maybe they were life long friends, maybe they were friends starting only two days ago, and now he's dead. And he killed his killer.

This soldier now has to deal with his friend's death, killed at the hands of some terrorist who hated him and his way of life. During his mourning, a little boy, wearing the same skin color of his friends killer, approaches him. Doesn't say anything, he just stands and stares at him.

What does the soldier do? He says 'Hello' to the boy, in his native language, and asks 'How are you?' The boy is stunned, and doesn't say anything. The soldier smiles, and gives him a pen, because they fucking love pens over there. The boy laughs, and thanks him.

Are you telling me that this story is less important than the one time somebody called you a sandnigger once?

>>8564067
She's not here idiot.

>>8558237
>tfw your arms aren't safety

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>>8557449
>this free verse crap sold half a million copies

>>8564027
It's even worse than that. It's a definition of bad sex that she has the audacity to call rape. If you aren't in the mood but just lie there and don't say anything about it that is not rape. I'm not a mind reader; how am I supposed to know? Maybe I just assume you're lazy, and I'm too polite to bring it up. It's unpleasant, maybe even for everyone involved, but its not rape.

>>8564599
>I'm not a mind reader; how am I supposed to know?
he asked