Task 20: Read a book of nature poems

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Bonnie G. wrote: "Shoshana wrote: "Elizabeth wrote: "I'm thinking of Nature Poem by Tommy Pico. After reading IRL last year I'm interested in reading more."
Thank you for this suggest..."
I actually disagree that this wouldn't fit the prompt. Sure, it's not about nature, in the traditional sense, but after listening to the audiobook I feel like he really found the beauty in nature where is exists in most people's every day life.

[Julia]

I'm with you Shoshana, Nature Poem by Tommy Pico totally fits this prompt. It's also super short.
I may read something edited by Billy Collins, too.

[Kristi]

I grabbed my old copy of The Heights of Macchu Picchu by Pablo Neruda. It's got the Spanish poem on one side and the English translation on the next side page. It's very short, which suits me since I'm not a huge poetry fan. It's about hiking to MP, MP itself, and the ancient people that lived there. Very nature and man vs stone, old vs new. I think it works.

[Whitney]

Jason wrote: "I read and loved The Lost Words by Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris. Such a beautiful book that seeks to poetically invoke words from nature that have been "lost" from the vocabul..."

This was my choice too. I listened to the audio book while I was cooking dinner one day and it was very well done. I loved it and now I am eager to seek out the physical copy to own and read with my kids. I saw this author has a follow up book called "The Lost Spells". The funny thing is I own one of his non-fiction books, "Landmarks". I didn't realize they were the same author until I was looking up his back-list. Now I am really excited to read it.

[Megan]

I just finished Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver for this prompt.

[asteriabooks]

I highly reccomend Water Sings Blue: Ocean Poems, and Nature's Lullaby Fills the Night for this challenge.

[Brittany]

I read Goldenrod: Poems by Maggie Smith. Some of the poems within this book do touch on subjects that are not nature, such as motherhood, but I feel like this is still a natural phenomenon and a vast majority of the poems are 'nature poems' in the literal sense.

[Tammy]

When in doubt, read a children's book... I was having trouble with this task so will read a book I own, Insectlopedia by Douglas Florian, for this. Although I think I could have gone through some suggestions here more thoroughly- will try to do that for next year's poetry task!