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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2019
  • my fav parts | 4:45 | 5:40 | 6:38 | 7:40 | 9:28 | 10:50 | 14:29 | 15:15 | 16:13 | 17:30 | 18:59 | 20:25 | 21:48 | 22:20 | 23:00 | 23:55 - end
    the poem I wrote at the end (it's a work in progress, and has already been edited a bit)
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  • @StephJLWReads
    @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Hey all ! I’m trying to build up my poetry collection so that I can return to the world of poetry with some solid recommendations. If there are any author’s in particular you want me to look into (genuinely, or to roast, although I do like to enjoy what I read) let me know !

    • @franciscocardemil5697
      @franciscocardemil5697 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Hey! I'm not from the US (nor from an English-speaking country for that matter), but here's some recommendations of some books I have really liked (loved):
      Louise Glück - The wild iris / Averno
      Sharon Olds - The father / The dead and the living
      Ada Limón - Bright dead things
      Natasha Trethewey - Thrall / Monument
      Terrance Hayes - American sonnets for my past and future assassin
      Anne Carson - The beauty of the husband / Men in the off hours
      Ocean Vuong - Night sky with exit wounds
      Jericho Brown - The tradition
      Denise Levertov - Life in the forest
      Forrest Gander - Be with
      Jorie Graham - Sea change
      Hilda Morley - Cloudless at first (or whatever you can find, she deserved better)
      (Some other authors that I'm guessing you already know, but whose work I like: Lorine Niedecker, May Swenson, Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, Charles Wright, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, WS Merwin, Muriel Rukeyser, Gwendolyn Brooks, Essex Hemphill, Amiri Baraka, Seamus Heaney, Robert Creeley, H.D., William Carios Williams, Robert Duncan).
      I would also recommend the New Yorker Poetry Podcast, which consists of conversations around particular poems with their authors. The episodes are really short and entertaining, and most of the guest-poets are very interesting.
      I'm sorry if this is just a plain list, or if it was too much. I just get excited when people talk about poetry in mainstream media (other than these self-help poetry books). I know a little more about Spanish-written poetry (which is my native language), particularly Latin American poetry, if you're interested in that.
      PS: I also love Robert Siken!

    • @Atzael-SMN
      @Atzael-SMN 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you review my poetry?
      If you’re interested I’ll leave a link if you reply to this comment.

    • @Mel-no6nd
      @Mel-no6nd 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some of my favorites are:
      Margaret Atwood - "Eating Fire" or "Two-Headed Poems"
      Sarah Kay - "No Matter Your Wreckage"
      Maggie Smith - "Good Bones"
      Ellen Bass - "Like a Beggar" or "The Human Line"

    • @sydlawson3181
      @sydlawson3181 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Mel-no6nd picking a favorite Lovelace poem is like picking the deepest mountain.

    • @jf9229
      @jf9229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Tracy K. Smith "Life on Mars"

  • @marlowem9045
    @marlowem9045 4 ปีที่แล้ว +116

    "It feels like she just wrote down her thoughts and instead of examining them ... here they are"

  • @nevermindkey
    @nevermindkey 4 ปีที่แล้ว +138

    I can’t stop laughing at the phrase “my favorite wizard boy” in the poem about getting her first period.. what a weird way to express your love for ThE bOi WhO LiVeD

    • @lalaland2107
      @lalaland2107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      How do people not find that cringey?

    • @robinmitchells
      @robinmitchells 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It’s r/agedlikemilk and r/cringetopia at the same time, how did she accomplish that?

    • @adinarosenstein9586
      @adinarosenstein9586 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There's nothing that makes me cringe more than Harry Potter adults.

  • @jewelcao9588
    @jewelcao9588 4 ปีที่แล้ว +221

    Honestly, the part that really irks me is the fact that there are so many interesting contemporary poets working today who are struggling to sell books and survive. I just wish they would get more attention, because some of their poems that touch upon the same issues mentioned here are so nuanced and breathtaking.

    • @thevivliocubicularist4480
      @thevivliocubicularist4480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Can you mention some!

    • @MelissBergsmaPoetry
      @MelissBergsmaPoetry ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I totally agree! I’ve been on a large poetry site for the last five years and honestly, there are some people on there (not a lot, but a good handful) that put many of the famous Poets to shame.

  • @sgab
    @sgab 4 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    It’s sad because the first poetry book that I read completely was ‘milk and honey’ (I’m a teenager and was recently introduced to poetry) and after reading it I genuinely thought that it was good. However, as I began to learn more about poetry, I came to find that this was sadly not the case.

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      I do appreciate what books like this do to get people into the genre. And if the book meant something to you, there no reason to discount it! :)

    • @skyhawk3736
      @skyhawk3736 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Steve Gaborsky You should check out “12:12 Midnight” by Danielle Ever Rose, it’s a poetry collection I just read last month and I thought it was a very interesting and creative read.

    • @marga8732
      @marga8732 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Same, I’m an aspiring poet who got introduced to poetry through Lang Leav’s (expensive) books and now I’ve moved on to other authors, I thought it was good (it was, as a starting point) so I guess it’s not all bad.

  • @evanedge6962
    @evanedge6962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    Rupi Kaur's "poetry" is like when I had to write a paper in highschool and I couldn't streatch it to ten pages so I just double spaced and made stuff up.

  • @Brynwyn123
    @Brynwyn123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "that's not poetry that's a list, fuck off" I'm cackling

  • @vaeholloway
    @vaeholloway 3 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Your poem at the end. It was beautifully crafted. It made me uncomfortable, but it comforting somehow. The relationship between men and women is complex it’s hard to sort out what was taught to us and how we to figure it or try to figure it out. Holy shit you need a separate video for your writing. I’m excited for when you get to publish your work.

  • @shantanukarir5451
    @shantanukarir5451 4 ปีที่แล้ว +159

    As an aspiring writer, I can't really understand this type of poetry, how does that shit is accepted.

    • @miacornell5078
      @miacornell5078 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Self-publishing tings

    • @drillgirl718
      @drillgirl718 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      its accepted just like mumble rappers and 6ix9ine is accepted lol

    • @valardohaeris333
      @valardohaeris333 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Is*

    • @ihatemickiegee
      @ihatemickiegee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@miacornell5078 nope, not anymore. have you seen the bookstore shelves the last few years? (my tone is anger at capitalism not you lol) if you look at all the instapoetry books now, they are all published by the same company. if i didn't value the quality of my work it would be so easy to make a killing.

    • @miacornell5078
      @miacornell5078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ihatemickiegee it sucks because people with more money have a head start 😔 and actually good pieces get thrown under the rug

  • @EmilyMcCosh
    @EmilyMcCosh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    "I haven't even started and I'm already mad" just speaks to my soul 😂

  • @ladybird491
    @ladybird491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Pain trigger prose statements to get the attention and then if the person don't like the poem they feel guilty, or they feel ashamed or feel like they must like it cause of its subject matter. This is the mind games and arm twisting efforts her work and many others like Rupi Kaur, is doing to the reader.

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      I know !!! This type of “poetry” just rubs me such the wrong way.

    • @louisa4764
      @louisa4764 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      EXACTLY

    • @ihatemickiegee
      @ihatemickiegee 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      and then we get people like gabbie hanna trying to convince impressionable fans that critics of work about trauma are criticizing the writer FOR their trauma + for making their art based in it. that is so manipulative! plenty of those of us criticizing are also survivors of trauma. we're criticizing the writing as alleged 'poetry', not the content FFS

  • @Sheepcakezzz
    @Sheepcakezzz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    I was worried you were going to just make fun of her book the entire time but you gave really helpful criticism. I'm working on a verse book so this also helps me

  • @jamiek9372
    @jamiek9372 4 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I had soooo many problems with this book as a writer as well. Also love the discussion of Richard Siken's poetry, you should definitely do a video talking about poetry books you've read ♡♡

  • @fabiogustavoromerosimeao8915
    @fabiogustavoromerosimeao8915 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    I can't stress enough how much this video spoke to me hahaha. You were funny, entertaining and spoke TRUTH. This shit just isn't poetry. Also loved your poem at the end!

  • @WhateverIOI
    @WhateverIOI 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    “Am I the problem?”
    -no, society is

  • @afrobarbie-sustainablelife7178
    @afrobarbie-sustainablelife7178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The poem you ended with is soo beautiful

  • @Misseggy24
    @Misseggy24 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Although menstruation could of course be triggering for some people, the reality is that it is an overly-stigmatised topic that I would’ve thought a feminist like Lovelace would be wanting to destigmatise, not make it into a content warning as if it’s as horrific as suicide, domestic violence, child abuse etc. I’m actually kind of disgusted that she’d consider menstruation such a ‘sensitive’ topic that she had to include it there.

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      i completely agree. i just think it added to her content earnings being performative “and maybe more” and unhelpful.

    • @punkrawkmom
      @punkrawkmom 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I could be wrong but it think the period warning is for trans women. I agree about periods being too stigmatized though.

    • @larissanascimento8963
      @larissanascimento8963 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@punkrawkmom Also trans men.

  • @marthadumptruck5102
    @marthadumptruck5102 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “And possibly more🥰”
    I died😭

  • @salbee2
    @salbee2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Dear god, your anger is on the same wavelength as mine. I enjoyed this whole thing so much :00

  • @sunnie8721
    @sunnie8721 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    oh my god, the poem you wrote at the very end was so beautiful. please write a book thanks!!

  • @sora1498
    @sora1498 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    these books are all just huge wastes of paper

    • @ihatemickiegee
      @ihatemickiegee 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      all i think about is the amount of time the printing press spends letting this 'poetry' see the light of day. the least they could do is make it a mini book and save some damn paper

  • @afrobarbie-sustainablelife7178
    @afrobarbie-sustainablelife7178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank you for finally attempting to tell the people what poetry is 🙌🏾🙌🏾 it's like no one knows what it is anymore

  • @ninanadine1185
    @ninanadine1185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I was really excited to read milk and honey.
    I was really disappointed.
    Because, well it seemed lazy. The great poems take work and effort. but they felt like quotes. it was just bad.

  • @sofiasamou
    @sofiasamou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    This is me reading milk and honey. Agree 100%

  • @soapy9472
    @soapy9472 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "this feels like the seventh grade" about sums it up

  • @anastasyaelizabeth8339
    @anastasyaelizabeth8339 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The poem u made at the end crying and shaking it made me feel a lot 😭

  • @komovafan4663
    @komovafan4663 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Your poem is incredibly beautiful. I can't even describe how I felt when I heard it.

  • @13thFallenPetal
    @13thFallenPetal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You are freaking hilarious! Insightful and raw. I appreciate the passion you have when it comes to literature. I just binge-watched your vids and listening to you makes my quarantine anxieties at bay. Keep doing what you do! lots of love!

  • @lalaland2107
    @lalaland2107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    It would be better if it was advertised as one of those books where it's just nice things you buy for your grandma or something. Rupi Kaur has a lot of affirmation quotes and that would be fine to sell like that. The other things are fine too, like it should've just been advertised as something else other than poetry.

    • @ashitakedia5814
      @ashitakedia5814 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I always say that and ppl come shouting at me as if I said something very wrong. All these poems feel like ‘thoughts’, and I just can’t seem to find a better word for it. It certainly doesn’t feel like poetry.

    • @lalaland2107
      @lalaland2107 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ashitakedia5814 omg, yes “ thoughts “ 😭

  • @ElectricCereal42
    @ElectricCereal42 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You gotta send this writer an invoice for your editorial services. I loved this video.

  • @thedawnhasbeengreeted3571
    @thedawnhasbeengreeted3571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    i love this so much. please release more vids like it.I also really enjoyed your poem at the end

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      thank you so much! dw, i’ve got future ideas :)

    • @salsanchezi.c.1470
      @salsanchezi.c.1470 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StephJLWReads You should check out Franz Antu a Mexican American poet he actually rhymes.
      Pretty good
      th-cam.com/video/_64Gh0M0oPE/w-d-xo.html

  • @kellykittyantlers9140
    @kellykittyantlers9140 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Please review more! Love this! You've got a natural talent for being on camera =^_^=

  • @hilalzia6
    @hilalzia6 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Till we become whispers have your say
    Form the words and have your way
    There is no map for the present
    The future is a good reference
    Reach out to her if you desire
    Not every king is a sire
    Sunsets will be plenty
    But these moments will not
    Till we become whispers have your day

  • @ComeUndun.
    @ComeUndun. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fill in the blank;
    Poetry is anything you want it to be
    Is just her trying to justify this book.

  • @mokanini5771
    @mokanini5771 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Me personally, I would be glad to see "racism" in TW: as I have been targeted for racial slurs etc..many times, and still, the topic of racism itself can trigger those trauma memories. As for poetry review, no, tI wouldn't class those as poetry - they are more like statements.

  • @adamfearn6676
    @adamfearn6676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is great! My thoughts exactly when I read this book. Please, please, please do videos for the other two! If anything, they’re even worse!

  • @nave_3030
    @nave_3030 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A poem that uses shape really well is Triptych by Diana Nguyen.

  • @lisbethpimentel524
    @lisbethpimentel524 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I love the ideas and the potential it had, it just wasn’t executed properly, but I appreciate how it’s getting a lot of people who don’t normally read to start reading.

  • @user-ib2sc8ck5i
    @user-ib2sc8ck5i 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think menstruation really is a valid tw for people who don’t want to be reminded they had them, it also ties into the SA theme like people who don’t want to remember "being an adult" in that moment

  • @maya_210
    @maya_210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I read this when I was 11, at the time I was new to the poetry thing and even I thought to myself “this is trash”

  • @whywherewhenhow
    @whywherewhenhow 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This video is so chaotic. 12/10.

  • @toddjacksonpoetry
    @toddjacksonpoetry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I'm old enough to remember when we had this sort of problem with the poetry of Rod McKuen.

    • @toddjacksonpoetry
      @toddjacksonpoetry 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      www.flickr.com/photos/39090492@N08/6871079109/

    • @TheWolfeDen
      @TheWolfeDen ปีที่แล้ว

      This is such a delayed response to an old comment on an old video but I just went down a Rod McKuen rabbithole because of this comment and it was so enlightening. (It also led me to a Rupi Kaur interview which led me to dislike her even more...)

  • @rattleheader449
    @rattleheader449 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Spontaneous overflow of emotions, collected immediately

  • @vanhooligan7532
    @vanhooligan7532 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I bought this book as a gift for a friend- she hated it. I should've read it first.

  • @jennagibson2544
    @jennagibson2544 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    While the poetry may be mediocre, the messages and stories behind them can inspire true recovery

  • @reyzagray5277
    @reyzagray5277 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Not you pulling out a poem of your own that made me shiver and then ending it with "but I don't know" girl

  • @GarryBurgess
    @GarryBurgess 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I never knew that it was possible to get upset about a poetry book.

  • @reinas5880
    @reinas5880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i cracked up at the sped-up reading

  • @bagelprince3
    @bagelprince3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    way late to this but i think the trigger warning for menstruation is for transmen or something (i am a transman), that being said, i dont like trigger warnings for 90% of things. it doesnt help me grow as a person, just more sensitive and avoidant of trauma and things.

  • @te-ter
    @te-ter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    (22:03) "am i too bitter?"
    - that was me reading that book
    On the other note, I didn't hear any audio where the phone recordings were playing..

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      hmm, the phone audio recordings are a lot quieter than the regular parts. i was unprepared to film when i filmed this video so the phone clips were an unfortunate compromise

  • @sakhoajakaffa1067
    @sakhoajakaffa1067 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Your poem at the end was really good!

  • @NoName-ki4nq
    @NoName-ki4nq 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I much prefer the energy in her poems than in this video!!!

  • @TallulahLaGhash
    @TallulahLaGhash 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's actually numbers after 10 that are numerated rather than written as words

  • @elvismemphisgs
    @elvismemphisgs ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Everything Is A Poem
    And Nothing Is A Poem
    End Of

  • @adamfearn6676
    @adamfearn6676 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Everyone who watches your video should submit a quick Lovelace-esque ‘poem’ - we could go for the Goodreads Poetry Award 2020..!

  • @LilMissDiscord
    @LilMissDiscord ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for posting this, before I spent money on her books

  • @jamesroethleinGenXpoet
    @jamesroethleinGenXpoet ปีที่แล้ว

    You were speaking of line breaks, when I write I regularly use enjambment and the comma

  • @swaizycruz1816
    @swaizycruz1816 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Lol I learned a lot from you and now I’m held to high expectations. 😉

  • @increditoaster
    @increditoaster 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Jayden Smith of poets

  • @lifeispoetry_
    @lifeispoetry_ ปีที่แล้ว

    Never heard of richard siken until now but wow! Now i have to go find that book.

  • @charki40
    @charki40 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is banal tripe, its not poetry and I will never refer to is as such. Its more brain farts of their inner monologue or stream of conciseness. There is no poetic craft behind this stuff at all.
    'A good poem can freeze experience even as it releases and enlarges it, the words utterly intact ramifying, like a bell that troubles the air long after its sound has stopped'. - Christian Wiman.

  • @eloisemurray7603
    @eloisemurray7603 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i haven’t laughed so much at something that wasn’t meant to be funny in a long time

  • @emmacait16
    @emmacait16 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Watched this immediately after reading, and oh my gosh we had the SAME reactions, lmao. Most of the poems you chose to read aloud that made you laugh/cringe were the same ones I'd just read off to my partner sitting next to me. I yelled out "THIS SHOULD JUST BE PROSE!!" more than a few times. 😂 Good to know I wasn't just being bitter.

  • @josiieflorals6871
    @josiieflorals6871 ปีที่แล้ว

    The one thing I see a lot with books like milk and honey is they are more shower thoughts than poetry and I think a good poem is where you use alot of imagery so where even with people who have never read poetry and still enjoy it and the poem actually be considered poetry often times people like these books because they are easy to understand, read no brain game and that's helpfull in many cases but they are often times shower thoughts I think a good poem for people who haven't read poetry before is imagery based poems that get straight to the point but are good

  • @himiko7548
    @himiko7548 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You should try Nikita Gill's poetry it's beautiful. Her work got me into poetry and writing some of it myself!

  • @jessc.8265
    @jessc.8265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Umm - can I have *your* poetry collection, please?
    That was SO MUCH better! I would 100% read it. (For the record. :])

  • @ivyatalanta_
    @ivyatalanta_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    hey, i was on your twitter and saw that you’re from halifax! my friend and i just discovered your channel today and fell in love. it would be so cool if we could meet up one day!!

  • @RusticPages
    @RusticPages 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Lol I couldn’t stand her poetry either 😅 esp the second book...

  • @granspada4544
    @granspada4544 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved the review and your straight-forward honesty! Keep speaking your truth ty👍

  • @mauriceslevines6100
    @mauriceslevines6100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This whole book is just noise.

  • @declanstark
    @declanstark 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think part of the “arbitrary” form of this writing style is that these writers, to break into the club, are using social media platforms to share their work and gain recognition initially. That format itself is very space limited, necessitating condensed writing, and the “random” line breaks help to visually flag to potential consumers that if they are a poetry fan they might like to stop and sit with this post - otherwise poetry fans could easily overlook a post they could actually enjoy. I think a lot of this poetry tends actually to be prose poetry with line breaks for marketing. Publishers then probably want the work to be printed in the Instagram format because that’s the layout that readers are now expecting. Okay, so why are they using Instagram? Isn’t that trashy, distasteful? Maybe, but these are often people who didn’t necessarily have the opportunity to major in literature at college, because of pressure to focus on vocational subjects, or because of economic disenfranchisement due to being from immigrant families, mental health experiences etc. Kind of like the writing equivalent of outsider artists. I’m not saying that Lovelace or Kaur are specifically good writers, but some of these people actually are. It might be unpopular to say, but there is an elitist exclusion of these voices. Okay, that’s my rant for the day.

  • @cainneachrua
    @cainneachrua ปีที่แล้ว

    please do some more poetry book reviews. really enjoyed them 👍🙃

  • @lennydellarocca4992
    @lennydellarocca4992 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

  • @mia-tr4shm4n50
    @mia-tr4shm4n50 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tbh I combine red and Colors all the time, is it a universal thing?

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      the songs have similar vibes i will say

  • @virileessence8122
    @virileessence8122 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    With a marketing campaign and budget the new instapoets have anyone can sell books. Literally zero talent trendy nightstand decorations.

  • @gabypasseri4017
    @gabypasseri4017 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Subscribing because of this video lol also, you kinda look like Cher from clueless!!

  • @ashitakedia5814
    @ashitakedia5814 ปีที่แล้ว

    Also can someone tell me why do these ‘poets’ never use punctuation?! Like if you want the reader to read the whole as one sing sentence with no breaks then write it as a single sentence. Don’t give line breaks just to make it seem like poetry.

  • @arusharush5323
    @arusharush5323 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    can you please recommend some good poems or poets?

  • @melancholy_edits
    @melancholy_edits 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    whatever pays the bills

  • @arachnozure
    @arachnozure 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    hi, i just started reading poetry and i was just wondering if anyone had any good recommendations? any help is appreciated, i don’t want to feed into bad stuff ^_^

  • @MrUndersolo
    @MrUndersolo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    New sub...
    And I love IASIP, too...
    This stuff is not poetry. It's watered-down greeting-card philosophy strained through a subliterate screen scribbler.

  • @jadenwritesoninstax9945
    @jadenwritesoninstax9945 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    your poem is rlly good !!! do you post your original work elsewhere? :)

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      as of now i don’t ! i plan on setting something up eventually, but nothing super soon :)

  • @ComeUndun.
    @ComeUndun. 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Trigger warning for racism? I just read the fucking book and I must have missed something pretty big.

  • @emilyschaubeck
    @emilyschaubeck 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I agree with what you're saying about the trigger warning holy shit that 'warning" was dumb as fuck lolol

  • @shadschneider1348
    @shadschneider1348 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would love it if you reviewed my poetry book Perpetually Eating Multicolored Sprinkles : )

  • @mauriceslevines6100
    @mauriceslevines6100 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Remarkably horrid, ridiculously bad
    some of the most accursed versifying I've ever had
    to endure for a semester - as per my English Literature requirement
    verbiage this toxic poses a threat to the environment
    an unprecedented policy of censorship when it comes to this type of cognitive deskilling
    would go a long way toward reversing the text-aversion this claptrap is instilling
    deep in my psyche - like a footprint in neural cement made by a syntactical Nike
    I don't care how you feel or if you even like me
    pretty soon you'll have to pay me to pick up a book
    because so much of what I'm seeing isn't worth a second look.

  • @Mjpa7860
    @Mjpa7860 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    that's just a waste of paperrrrr haha

  • @i2023d
    @i2023d 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    what are great poetry books?

  • @Cross_Contam
    @Cross_Contam 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Triggered by the trigger warning, that's gold. As was your poem.. much development in 14 minutes. You should've ghost wrote the whole damn thing. I enjoyed the critique, really brings the slam to the poetry. I can't relate to these new poets they lack teeth. Your video had plenty of bite though.

  • @lalaland2107
    @lalaland2107 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You need more subs

  • @ace4009
    @ace4009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I personally think you need to have gone through some of the things the author has gone through to compleatly get the book because i have this book and I absolutely love it

    • @ArtFriendsKA
      @ArtFriendsKA 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Dastiny Zarate I think the general ideas, and some of the messages are genuinely really really good - the problem comes with the writing. The writing is just bad and the messages get lost in it. The problem isn't that this book is trying to be something else, that's actually a good thing like let's not read the same sht over and over again; the stylistic choices like weird spaces between words and sentences are good, or the lack of capital letters. It's just not used in a way that would give this piece justice. It's used poorly and I'm sorry, but lazy writing cannot be excused as "a form of art" like tf I'm not gonna pay 15$ for 5 words on a otherwise blank page. Like 80% of this could've been tweets. That doesn't make it invalid of course, it still can be (and should) viewed as a piece of art. But just not poetry imo. A book of the author's thoughts and views? Yes. Poetry? Shakespear is shaking in his grave 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @ladybird491
      @ladybird491 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What the hell does subject matter, got to do with the quality?

  • @lalaland2107
    @lalaland2107 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the name of your intro song? It's lovely!

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      omg it took my a second to figure out what you were asking about, the music i use in this is the intro music from the tv show “it’s always sunny in Philadelphia” i don’t know the actual name :)

    • @lalaland2107
      @lalaland2107 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StephJLWReads thank you! 💕

  • @authorsarasutton8204
    @authorsarasutton8204 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Can you send me your info so I can send you my book to review? I promise its better than this lol!!
    @authorsarasutton

  • @ariasteel4770
    @ariasteel4770 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm pretty sure the child eater is a reference to the demonisation of pro choice women

  • @NothingHumanisAlientoMe
    @NothingHumanisAlientoMe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So a trigger warning isn't a literary device?

    • @StephJLWReads
      @StephJLWReads  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nah, and in this book they don’t even serve the purpose they’re supposed to lmaoo

    • @NothingHumanisAlientoMe
      @NothingHumanisAlientoMe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@StephJLWReads
      You could argue she is just channeling the zeitgeist.

  • @theblindsniper
    @theblindsniper 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    insta-suscribe, great video!

  • @lovetahera217
    @lovetahera217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    WDYM ITS THE BEST BOOK EVER

  • @kendallstreet1920
    @kendallstreet1920 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    art is art

  • @RavynLee1
    @RavynLee1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am very much late but I like you girl

  • @lazysayuki0007
    @lazysayuki0007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like this book But I think it could have had more potential if it could have been more well written.