I’ve been reading *The Year of Magical thinking* by Joan Didion and it’s been making me want to read more poetry. Suggestions for recent books of poetry? I also love novels in verse. I’d love any newer poetry books as well if you have any you’ve loved Some ones I’ve read and loved are below:
*Autobiography of Red* by Anne Carson
*Fat and Queer: an anthology of Queer and Trans bodies and lives*
*Deaf Republic* by Ilya Kaminsky
*How to Cure a Ghost* by Fariha Roisin
*The Sun and Her Flowers* by Rupi Kaur (read all of her poetry!)
*No Matter the Wreckage* by Sarah Kay
*Brown Girl Dreaming* by Jacqueline Woodson
*The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On* by Franny Choi
(Read all of her poetry!)
*All the Flowers Kneeling* by Paul Tran
*Long Way Down* by Jason Reynolds
*Eugene Onegin* by Alexander Pushkin
*Inside Out and Back Again* by Tanhha Lai
by ruby8sapphire
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Not a collection but,
Home they brought her warrior dead-Tennyson.
A poison tree-William Blake I think.
Shew I think of Autobiography of Red all the time
Such an amazing read
The Crossover – Kwame Alexander
Other Words for Home – Jasmine Warga
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
(I was going to suggest Autobiography of Red, but was pleasantly surprised to see all the love for it)
•The Essential Rumi by Rumi
•Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
•Song of Myself and/or Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
•Any T.S. Eliot collection that contains ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
•The Road Not Taken and Other Poems by Robert Frost
*Edit*
I just noticed you wanted more recent works. Sorry that mine are quite ancient. Still worth the read, though!