Anyone read this? I picked it up on a total whim just because I heard Faulkner had an effect on Cormac McCarthy's style, and though I was a little underwhelmed by the overall plot of Blood Meridian, i felt the prose was pretty, so I wanted to go more in that direction.
In my honest opinion, this is a great book, especially if you can get used to the redneck-speak. It had great style and approach to storytelling, the chapter where Jewel
worked nights at his neighbor's to earn his horse, in turn not being able to work for his family was a great story in itself. And It has been a while since books actually made me feel for the characters. When I ask people if they've read Faulkner, they make this stinkface and say The Sound and The Fury was dense, but this is really much more accessible and has just enough experimentation (stream-of-consciousness, inner dialogue stuff) for it to feel novel without it being a brainy, convoluted slog. I might even consider gifting it to one of my friends so they can read it, kek.
>>526043To really enjoy poetry, you kind of have to find your own taste for themes and language. I like Poetry Foundation for this purpose.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/You can search for specific tags to find poems you like. They also have poem guides if you want it to be explained better. I would just browse the website sometimes and read a few poems here and there, maybe a poem every day to turn it into a habit. If you like a poet's works, you can buy compilations of their poems, and if you're dead set on an author already, you can keep a book of their poems on the bedside table and read just one poem a day.
If you have an author you really like that has happened to have written poetry i'd check that out, too.
Otherwise I don't read a bunch of poetry, but I personally like many of Shakespeare's sonnets, Maya Angelou and Sylvia Plath, as well as Berthold Brecht and R.M. Rilke's stuff. Pretty basic taste in poetry except for Rilke (so far), but that's probably better to start with!
Also remember that poems should be approached differently than books. I read most poems several times, and sometimes I come back to my
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