Review: Poem a Day, Vol. 1

Poem a Day, Vol. 1 by Nicholas Albery
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It only took me about two and a half years to read this poem-a-day book. I'm not good at doing what people tell me, I guess. Instead of a daily read, I tended to read this in short chunks of a few days at a time. I appreciated the variety, although I enjoyed the more modern poets much more than the ones from centuries ago -- there were way too many of those classics in there. I enjoyed reading these, slowly. I was impressed to read in the foreword that many people would memorize a poem a day. That would be quite an accomplishment with this collection, with so many rare and/or dated words. But the poems are mostly one pagers, so memorizing might be more readily accomplished than longer poems. Overall, I enjoyed this but would have liked more modern and fewer classic poems...and maybe even more American poets -- this is the American version of a British poetry book, and some British poems were traded out for American poems, but not nearly enough for my liking...

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