Poetry people carry lines around with them the way other people carry song lyrics. There is a poem they return to at certain times of year, or when certain things happen, or just on the kind of day when the weather and the light are doing something particular and the poem is the only thing that names it correctly. They may write poetry too, or they may just read it with the attention that poetry requires and rewards — the kind of reading where you slow down instead of speed up, where you read the same twelve lines four times because each time there is more to find. They have opinions about which poets are worth the time and which ones are doing something interesting and which ones everyone acts like they love but honestly. The gift for them is something that goes deeper into the thing they already return to, or opens a door to a poet they haven't found yet.
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These are for the poetry reader and the language they love — collections worth reading slowly, books about craft and history, and things that fit someone who takes a short form seriously.
An Acclaimed Poetry Collection — The Poet Worth Reading All the Way Through
Under $20See Price →Quality Poetry Anthology — The Wide View That Opens Doors to Poets They Haven't Found
Under $25See Price →A Book on the Craft of Poetry — How the Thing That Moves Them Gets Made
Under $20See Price →Poetry Foundation or Literary Magazine Subscription — The Field, Regularly
Under $40See Price →Quality Journal — For the Lines They Are or Aren't Writing
Under $25See Price →Poetry Reading or Literary Event Tickets — The Poem Spoken by the Person Who Wrote It
Under $50See Price →Poem-a-Day Subscription or Desk Calendar — One Good Thing in the Inbox or on the Desk
Under $20See Price →Quality Writing Set — Because Some Things Still Deserve to Be Written by Hand
Under $30See Price →If you know which poets they love or what draws them to it, the quiz can find something specific to their taste. About a minute.
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