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Charles Bukowski said, “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

In that statement, poetry is our last resort, the big guns, the form of communication that saves us when all else fails. In that statement, poetry is our truest form of expression, the most poignant way of assembling letters and words, the truest descriptions of our human lives.

It is also – perhaps – a dying art. It is also – perhaps – not what we immediately turn to when we wish to sit down with a book in hand. It is also – perhaps – something we assume the greats did way back when.

But we must not forget poetry for it serves a different purpose than the novel. A good poem can say in a few stanzas what a novel can say in three hundred pages.

For when we are looking to feel, looking to make sense of our heart’s fluttering, and looking to understand what exactly it is we are experiencing, seeing, and processing – we should look nowhere else but poetry.

So, for those wishing to ignite the poetic prose of their potential, here are five poetry books to bring you back to your creative life:

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