{"id":17411,"date":"2021-02-16T22:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17411"},"modified":"2021-02-16T22:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:56:16","slug":"look-into-these-four-poets-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/look-into-these-four-poets-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Look into these four poets this month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Find a real page-turner with this poetry recommendation\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Natalie\u200c \u200cDean\u200c<\/strong> \u200c|\u200c \u200cEntertainment\u200c \u200cEditor\u200c \u200c <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Poetry is often enjoyed because of its versatility \u23e4 especially since there are so many different poets and genres to explore. To help narrow down the search, here\u2019s a list of four poets and their works to help get the ball rolling:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cAmong the Dog Eaters\u201d by Adrian C. Louis.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Louis covers material centered on being Native American in the 20th century and recounts his experiences in a vivid, vulnerable way. From the foreword written by Jimmy Santiago Baca, \u201c[Louis] deals with margin life, the blood and betrayals, the bleak joys and raging ecstasies of our lonely, primal dance as humans living in a world insanely intoxicated on cheap thrills.\u201d Broken into five parts \u23e4 all jam packed with poems \u23e4 the titles alone are enough to make a reader intrigued. Some of my personal favorites are \u201cSometimes a Warrior Comes Tired\u201d and \u201cIn the Ghetto on the Prairie there is Unrequited Love.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cat the helm of twilight\u201d by Anita Endrezze.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>With a tough love, no-nonsense attitude, Endrezze uses lyrical poetry to wrap the reader into the natural rhythm that is created, and her sharp imagery keeps the pages turning. She takes closely familiar, universal experiences, examines them and then uses original approaches to poetry, such as the ways it can be read and enjoyed by many audiences. The poem, \u201cSunflower Woman,\u201d is a poem that can be read in vertical or horizontal columns, and another poem, \u201cIn the Horizontal Sky,\u201d consists of twelve short sections.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cThe Captain\u2019s Verses\u201d by Pablo Neruda.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Neruda is a staple among many people\u2019s poetry collections and is well known for his artistic use of language that pulls at the readers\u2019 heartstrings. He addresses the visceral feelings of new love and ecstasy, relationships with one another and the deep connections people share through their lives. In his poem, \u201cNot Only the Fire,\u201d he describes, \u201cAh my life\/ it is not only the fire that burns between us\/ but all of life,\/ the simple story,\/ the simple love\/ of a woman and a man\/ like everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>\u201cWar of the Foxes\u201d by Richard Siken.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Siken takes a compelling and haunting approach to his poetry, touching on issues around morality, personhood and the ways people find meaning and purpose in art. He uses raw language that can also be found in his poems from earlier published collections, such as \u201cCrush.\u201d This collection holds stories of birds, war and tales about the moon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:ndean17@wou.edu\">ndean17@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find a real page-turner with this poetry recommendation\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Natalie\u200c \u200cDean\u200c \u200c|\u200c \u200cEntertainment\u200c \u200cEdito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[161,279,280,607,728,647],"class_list":["post-17411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-natalie","tag-natalie-dean","tag-poetry","tag-poets","tag-recommended"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}