Antologia de la Poesia Amorosa: Espanola e Hispanoamericana Book

Let's just say I severely underestimated the time commitment when I found this at the library. (So very naive...but I guess it also forced me to actually finish it.) Anyway, it was definitely worth it. I found a bunch of beautiful poems that I'm in love with, read Wikipedia's biographies of all kinds of poets and got a mini-world history course out of it. SO MUCH WISDOM.

Poetry limit: may have been hit. Wisdom limit: not even close.

One of the reasons why I was drawn to this collection was because of the range of cultures and societies it was able to represent. Of course it's Western/White/European heavy, but at least a lot of marginalized groups of people are there too.

A couple of examples before I got bored of putting them here:

Out in the Marsh Reeds - Ki no Tsurayuki
Out in the marsh reeds
A bird cries out in sorrow
As though it had recalled
Something better forgotten.

Twice Times Then is Now - Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi

To Leuconoe - Horace

Words in Shadows - Victor Hugo