How do I get into poetry? In high-school I won national prizes

>>9295056
Well your heart is in the right place so that's step number 1

Like those girls literally melt if you start namedropping some ""obscure"" Russian cinema, then mention the modernists in the literature and then I want to cap it off with poetry but when I tried to read shit like TS Elliot I fell asleep and reading Bukowsky won't convince anyone

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>>9295056

Intelligently reading poetry is just about going slow and being sensitive about every single decision made in diction, syntax, metaphor, meter, form, etc. Bad poetry often ignores those things while good poetry becomes more meaningful when they are examined.

Pic related is a nice accessible book that should get you asking the right questions. It has blurbs in the back from Harold Bloom, John Hollander, and Robert Fagles.

>>9295089
Thanks anon I'll actually just go ahead and trust you and read the book you suggested without looking any further (not being ironic)

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>>9295096
(and by ironic i meant sarcastic)

(which might be synonyms in actuality)

(but not taking any risks)

>>9295056
I started with Robert Frost after picking up his collected works. "My November Guest" is probably my favorite poem to this day. I highly recommend his work. Same with William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson.