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My Poetry Of Amiee's Poetry

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Although I have very little experience with poetry readings, never in a thousand years would I have expected to be shown a video of a cockroach giving live birth at a poetry reading. As the poet to follow Jorie Graham in the poetry series, Amiee had big shoes to fill, and I felt that she overcame the odds and rose to the occasion. Even though many of my classmates expressed that they felt that Amiee’s poems were a little flat and superficial, I honestly related better to her style more than any of the other poets we have studied thus far. I share her playful writing style and obsession with nature, and I am really drawn to the way that she frames her poetry to prompt her readers to be presently mindful and reconsider the world around her. However, the element that I found the most appealing about her poetry was the way that she made her poems a vehicle for sharing knowledge or fun tidbits of information about the natural world, and the amount of research she put into each one is easily apparent and quite admirable. After having formed my own impressions and expectations of her from the lively tone and overarching optimistic themes of her poetry, when Aimee walked into our classroom on Thursday and began speaking to us, I felt as if I already knew her. In that sense, I came to realize how true to herself Aimee is as a writer and how incredibly authentic the sentiments in her poetry are. She has a contagious enthusiasm for discovery, the natural world, and her family that I

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