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Old 06-04-06, 03:49 PM
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Anybody got any fav poetry books recommendations?

I've been reading "Love Poems" by Nikki Giovanni, real good.....
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The only full books I get through in one sitting are Nikki Giovanni's books..and

Jessica Care Moore's..
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Jessica Care Moore also has a show on Black Family Channel, called "Spoken", it ain't no Def Poetry, but's it's aiight

If ya tryin' to get ur poetry game up.....
-Nikki Giovanni
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...Fencoding=UTF8
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/068...lance&n=283155
-Saul Williams
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141...lance&n=283155
(i actually just ordered this one, after i read another piece he wrote)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074...Fencoding=UTF8
-Jill Scott
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031...lance&n=283155
-Sonia Sanchez
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080...lance&n=283155
-Gwendolyn Brooks
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006...Fencoding=UTF8
-Maya Angelou - Still I Rise, Phenomenal Women & Collected Poems
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She by Sual Williams... very good, if you like having to analyze your ish. I also LOVE the collected poems of Langston Hughes. And of course MY BOOK due to drop later this year... look out people!
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I love Jewel's poetry book A Night Without Armor. It was one of the first I ever bought and I love modern free verse poetry, so it was refreshing and interesting.
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I like ee cummings, langston hughes, gwendolyn brooks, bukowski, nikki giovani aw honey, carl sandburg (sometimes), shel silverstein... trying to get into Walt Whitman but it keeps going over my head heh

one book I really really enjoy is Genius B-Boy Cynics Getting Weeded In the Garden of Delights by Adam Mansbach
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BUKOWSKI DID HIS OWN THING. NOT LIKE THAT BORING, REGULAR POETRY. ALOT OF TIMES IT LOOKED LIKE HE WOULD SCRIBBLE THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED INTO HIS HEAD.
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BUKOWSKI DID HIS OWN THING. NOT LIKE THAT BORING, REGULAR POETRY. ALOT OF TIMES IT LOOKED LIKE HE WOULD SCRIBBLE THE FIRST THING THAT POPPED INTO HIS HEAD.

true, but to me he does get boring after a while.... too much the same isht... but there is a really good documentary out about him called "Born Into This" <---recommended
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