Flipping Through Poems Like the Pages of a Magazine
How one book got me hooked on poetry
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7 min readMar 11, 2024
Like most people my age, the education system did a thorough job of killing any spark of interest I may have once had in poetry. The more my teachers droned on about the symbolism of a poem or pulled meanings of lines seemingly out of thin air, the more convinced I was that it was all bullshit.
