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Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope

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funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.0

The Aerial, The Orange, and Names are absolutely stunning poems but I found most of the other ones a bit forgettable, and sometimes the same kind of joke over and over. 
The Leaf and the Cloud by Mary Oliver

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adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

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informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

ねにもつタイプ Ne Ni Motsu Taipu by 岸本 佐知子, Sachiko Kishimoto

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 7%.
It’s too hard, I’ll try again when I’ve studied more. 
New and Selected Poems, Volume Two by Mary Oliver

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.5

Selected Poems = Ausgewählte Gedichte by Stanley Appelbaum, Rainer Maria Rilke

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challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

3.5

I love that this book has the original German as well as English translations. 
New and Selected Poems, Volume One by Mary Oliver

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adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.75

C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

3.0

These poems are great when you hear them aloud, but there are a lot of places and concepts mentioned (there’s a glossary at the front) so if you aren’t familiar with them already, it can be hard to be absorbed into the poetry. 
The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations by Gil Fronsdal

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challenging informative fast-paced

3.0

Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thích Nhất Hạnh

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hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0