I want you to know in the 8 years I’ve known you, you saying this broke me. Not the other cursed shenanigans, not the tweets you send me. This- this broke me.
If you like poetry, I reccomend Zbigniew Herbert’s masterpieces, especially „The power of taste”. I don’t know if it sounds so good in English, but reading it in Polish is a pleasure. They may also be hard to understand for people who didn’t experience communism.
Not only did you choose one of the only languages I don’t want to ever learn, but you chose it when it is about a political topic I know FAR too much about and have the most INSANE takes on.
(I will find them in english, get back to you in at most a week!)
Okay so taking a second look, and as a poet, I think it would feel WRONG to analyze and review poetry.
Poetry is something from your heart, from how you feel, and analyzing that and judging that just feels wrong. That’s someone’s soul in writing, and who am I to judge and try to analyze the poetry as if I’d understand the hardships? Not doing poetry out of respect to poets from trauma, with crucibles unlike any other.