tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216081229982312439.post5827869160802725709..comments2024-02-20T17:51:43.989-05:00Comments on Buckling Bookshelves: National Poetry MonthChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03215797870829907924noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216081229982312439.post-54772055834017901102017-05-09T07:28:37.091-04:002017-05-09T07:28:37.091-04:00It definitely takes some adjustment to our reading...It definitely takes some adjustment to our reading habits to enjoy poetry I think. Some is easier to understand than others, so it might not always take a lot of extra time, but other times it really is worth that extra contemplation :)<br /><br />I've picked up a lot of poetry collections for our shelves lately and at first was worried there would be too much cross-over or duplication across the different books, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that revisiting some of the same poems alongside different illustrations, etc really isn't a bad thing in terms of absorbing and understanding them. Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03215797870829907924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216081229982312439.post-30844536806404799412017-05-09T07:24:02.051-04:002017-05-09T07:24:02.051-04:00The Julie Andrews collection is stellar - if you g...The Julie Andrews collection is stellar - if you get to check any of them out, I'd put that one at the top of the list! :)Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03215797870829907924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216081229982312439.post-69437750023854283902017-05-09T02:37:00.032-04:002017-05-09T02:37:00.032-04:00Great post, Christine! I've actually taken a l...Great post, Christine! I've actually taken a lot away from it. I picked up A Poem for Every Night of the Year at the beginning of the year, but have been terrible at actually sticking to reading them daily. I think one of those reasons is because I was reading them wrong - like you say, we don't consume poems but contemplate them, whereas I was doing the former. I think I'm going to try and get back into this book and set aside time in the evening to read them, as opposed to just giving them a minute or so before calling it a night. <br /><br />I'll have to check out the other collections also. Reading with Jadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00776146295033934487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216081229982312439.post-1005845612242314952017-05-04T16:57:22.364-04:002017-05-04T16:57:22.364-04:00Thanks for this post! I've really only read si...Thanks for this post! I've really only read silly children's poetry - Shel Silverstein and Jack Prelutsky. I'll be sure to check some of these collections out!Julie @ Smiling Shelveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16695465649011617565noreply@blogger.com