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Hi Mark, is it too late to send comments on this? Regarding thoughts on the poems and their appearance in One Art? This article went into my Spam Folder for some reason and I rarely check that. Thanks. And thanks for the link. I can't wait to read them.

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Aww, no, it's never too late to share comments and feedback :)

I saw you sent me something to and I owe you an email.

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Hi Mark,

I read all 50 poems and wanted to post. Thank you for sharing that beautiful list. It was such a treat. We're having a big snowstorm here that lasted two days so I snuggled up and read poetry. I just made a list of what I loved and divided into ones I loved and thought would go in One Art and ones I didn't think would go in One Art but I loved P.S. I could be totally wrong on that assessment! If I listed all of the reasons why I loved them, this response would go on forever. But I could send a separate response on some of the poems I loved if you would like.

One Art/ Poems I Loved:

I Went Out to See All the Downed Trees

Black Forest

The Child Who Follows The Child Who Dies

Recipe To Recover (I cried)

The Room

No Consolation

At the End There is Always a House

Dear Absent, (made me cry)

Sonnet Unrequited

Poetry is the supreme killjoy

Go Back Into Yourself

My Education

Mirror after Merrill

Snowdrops

Soldier/Canada

Handfuls

Mid-Thirties Square Dance

Fable

Poems I Loved:

The Poets Awoke

Stripshot

Cento for the Night I Tried Stand-Up

Invisible Work

The Dream Where I'm Dreaming of the Future

Ballad

Abundance

Palestinian

Homeland Security Agent

Second Theory

Plant Parenthood

Prelude

Phyllodes Reveries

Folk Song

Envoy (totally cried)

Crown Shyness

Equation

Eurydice

My Father Visits My Brother in Jail

Hope you have a great week! Sara

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So cool! I love that you took the assignment seriously and went all in!

I also appreciate the "note to self" that you cried in response to reading several of these. I'm sure the poets would love to hear that their work had such emotional resonance with you! Poets/writers really can never hear enough that their work spoke to / touched someone.

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