Reading with Style discussion

20.6 The Sonnets
“In black ink my love may still shine bright.”
Read a book of poetry. You may use two books to make up the required 100 pages.

Please post any questions you have about 20.6 here.

I was hoping to read Devotion . First, can I use this book as one of it's MPG is poetry; and second, can I combine this with a book by Pablo Neruda?

Valerie wrote: "I was hoping to read Devotion . First, can I use this book as one of it's MPG is poetry; and second, can I combine this with a book by Pablo Neruda?"

Valerie, I looked at the sample of Devotion on Amazon and it seems to be a book about writing poetry rather than a book of poetry. So that would be a no, unless it turns out to be mostly actual poems.

But you can combine two books of poetry by two different poets.

Rosemary wrote: "Valerie wrote: "I was hoping to read Devotion . First, can I use this book as one of it's MPG is poetry; and second, can I combine this with a book by Pablo Neruda?"

Valerie, I loo..."

Thanks, Rosemary. I suspected that would be the answer - until I picked it up from the TBR pile I thought it was actual poems. Oh well.

Can the “Not-A-Novel” style still be applied to this task? Every book for this task would get the style points so I wanted to check

chunwui wrote: "Can the “Not-A-Novel” style still be applied to this task? Every book for this task would get the style points so I wanted to check"

Absolutely!

Hello ! I've picked-up Light Boxes and saw it's Poetry MPG - it's not standard poetry, i would have considered more fairy tale or fable, but i guess poetry can be pretty free form, so i actually don't know :) does it fit the task for you ?

Marie wrote: "Hello ! I've picked-up Light Boxes and saw it's Poetry MPG - it's not standard poetry, i would have considered more fairy tale or fable, but i guess poetry can be pretty free form, s..."

Amazon lists this as Light Boxes: A Novel, so I'm going to say no to this one unless when you read it, you find that it's more interconnected poems than fable or novel.