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Looking for some good poetry book recommendations.
I really like poetry, but haven't read a whole lot of it, so any ideas would be appreciated. I am however, not really into romantic stuff.

Check out some Carl Sandburg. Wonderful stuff.

I love the poems of TS Eliot (for beautiful language), Charles Bukowski (for gritty realism), and Emily Dickinson (for lovely imagery).

Right off the top of my head I'd say Edna St.Vincent Millay's stuff. To get an idea of her genius: she wrote Renaissance when she was only nineteen years old. I was so taken by it that I took upon myself the task of memorizing it when I was a junior in high school - not a simple task. Lament and Dirge Without Music are also among my favorite poems - also by Millay.

Thanks so much all of you. I will definitely be checking these out.

The only one I can think of is crank by ellen hopkins. I haven't read much from poetry but this one was good. It's about a teenager and her struggles with drugs and some family issues.

Robert Service is nice. I've only read one book of his but it was really good- it's brown with a sketch of a man on a horse in front of mountains

Not poetry as we usually know it, but milk and honey by Rupi Kaur