Well, I lost friends on Twitter for even suggesting that! Let’s see how our friend would go about memorizing John Ashbery’s poems. John Hollander also gives an interesting collection of poems to memorize in his “Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize.” Thanks for bringing up this important topic at a time when the memory is starting to fail! 😉
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Well, I lost friends on Twitter for even suggesting that! Let’s see how our friend would go about memorizing John Ashbery’s poems. John Hollander also gives an interesting collection of poems to memorize in his “Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize.” Thanks for bringing up this important topic at a time when the memory is starting to fail! 😉