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2022 Read Harder Challenge > #12: Read an entire poetry collection.

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message 51: by Bobby (new)

Jul 26, 2022 03:53PM

Sabrina wrote: "This challenge is oddly worded...this just means "a book of poetry" right? Not the entire collection of poems written by a specific author..."

I interpret it to mean a book containing multiple poems by a single author, but not necessarily all of their poems.

Wikipedia has a discussion of this term and a list of several examples at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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message 52: by Jeniece (new)

Jul 27, 2022 06:08AM

I would highly recommend

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson

by Andrea Gibson. It is one of the best collections I have read.

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message 53: by Megan (new)

Sep 30, 2022 01:25PM

I forgot to post when I finished this one back in June, but I read Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman for this prompt.

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message 54: by Emily (new)

Dec 02, 2022 11:15AM

I read Blud by Rachel McKibbens and it was very distressing. But it was good.

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