Wild Nights is a wonderful collection of classic and modern poetry that features the works of: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some poems have corresponding imagery -- which normally I am not a fan of -- but this book did a good job of making sure that the images used don't interfere with your own personal interpretation. I've posted a picture on my Instagram if you'd like an example: @brittannia_aI also really appreciated the short biographies of...

This poetry collection contains selected works of 5 female poets. It starts with sappho, I’ve always wanted to read something by her. I’m not sure if they picked the best writings but it was nice nonetheless. She’s so dramatically passionate and you feel like she’s sincerely in love with all her 253 boyfriends and girlfriends. “Ah, love is bitter and sweet,but which is more sweet? the sweetnessor the bitterness?none has spoken it.” Next is Emily Dickinson whose poetry I enjoy but I also found th...

Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC.2.5 stars"Wild Nights" would be a book that I would keep in my living room on the coffee table to skim it from time to time and to come back to it so I can reread my favorite poems. I love Emily Dickinson and as I started reading her poems I instantly fell into a feeling of comfort. I'm familiar with her writing and her poetry and just because there was a section for her just made my heart smile.Another thing that made me happy about this w...

This poetry collection just melted my heart the whole entire time!I recieved an ARC of this book through NetGalley, so thanks to them for this amazing opportunity.I firstly picked it up due to Edna St. Vincent Millay being featured on the cover. Little did I know I had gotten the chance to discover four other amazing woman poets as well.Subjectively speaking, I did not enjoy all of the poems in here, as usually happens with poetry collections, but every piece of work chosen to go into this volum...

Not for me! I don't know much about poetry, but I try to appreciate it with what I'm feeling while reading it, I think this is what poetry is about and this one doesn't get to me at all. It's certainly a more feminine poetry so maybe that's the reason, but in the end, I didn't like it...

I think there is no need for review. The spirit of poetry is timeless.Highly recommended.

The book is a short read and can be read in one sitting. Foreword advises you to read every poem thrice to feel it and to let it seep in you. The book consists of poems by Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Some poems like that of Sappho's date back to BC and have been lauded by the likes of Plato and Herodotus. It was therefore more like a treasure trove for me. Yes, certain mythological references I couldn't decipher but that doesn't lessen the bea...

Thanks to Netgalley and respective publishers for sending me copy.Beautiful collection of Poems comprises classic and modern poetry that features the works of: Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Deep classical poetry entangled along several topics. Some of the glorious lines are : # SAPPHO*"Last night, when someone spoke his nameFrom my swift blood that went and cameA thousand little shafts of flameWere shiver'd in my narrow frame."(Translated by Alf...

Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets is a lovely collection of poetry from some well-known female poets of the recent (and distant) past, including some of my favorites. This collection focuses on feelings, romance, heartbreak, and other things to do with love and life. In order, the poets included here are:Sappho: I'd heard the name before, but knew nothing of this most famous Greek poet from more than two thousand years ago. While Sappho's "voice" often varies based on the translato...

It was lovely to read the work of five of my favorite poets all in one place, although there was no new or surprising content here. Phrasing and punctuation in this edition aren’t necessarily translated exactly as in their original form, especially in Dickinson’s work, which disappointed me. Lowell’s poetry featured in this book was a joy to rediscover.

I loved this collection! If you can get your hands on this collection, I definitely think it's worth the read. It contain poems from 5 different women poets. 2 of these poets are well know, Sappho and Emily Dickinson, and there were 3 poets I had not read, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.I felt like this was a well thought out collection. Every poem felt like it belonged. The only thing I might have enjoyed is if the poets were all mixed together with the poems themselves

Wild Nights is a collection of poetry that brings together some of the classics, including Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Amy Lowell and more. This collection includes a snapshot of work from each of the five poets, mostly what they wrote on the topics of love and desire.While I like the idea of collecting women poets together to create a fierce collection, this title is a little lacking. It seems like it could have been expanded to include many more female poets (because what poet hasn't written abou...

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Wild Nights is actually a good collection of poems by even greater women, Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell and Sara Teasdale. I've only read poetry from Teasdale really and some poems by Sappho and Dickinson. Thus this collection was very interesting, though I couldn't really find any theme as such. Somehow the book felt slightly sporadic. Some of the chosen poems were spot on and linked well with others and some, well, not so much. Especially Sappho felt distant and

One thing I liked about this book of poetry is that I knew about some of these authors but had never read anything from them, so it allowed me to discover their writing.I enjoyed everything I read except for Sappho, I didn't really connect with her poetry, not really what she had to say but more like I didn't connect with the style, which isn't her fault: her work has been translated into English. I was wondering why all her work has been translated by men? Isn't there at least one woman transla...

While I love the idea of this book, the execution was a little lacking. I would've put the biographies at the front, for one, to give some context and time frames for the poetry. Also, the poems chosen were mostly pretty formal, which doesn't strike me as the type of thing that will stir up "the feels" in those new to poetry, as the forward claims. Maybe including a wider variety of styles would've opened it up a bit.*Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC, provided by the author and/or the publisher i...

I was sent a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.I am so glad I read this volume, because it introduced me to all these five amazing poets - I only knew about Emily Dickinson and Sappho before reading this, but never actually read any of their poetry. I am also glad I got to know about the three other women in this book and to learn that they were quite famous and won big awards, but then kinda faded in history. I really appreciated the short biographies for each writer. It w...

A Rainy Nightby Amy Lowell‘Shadows,And white, moving light,And the snap and sparkle of rain on the window,An electric lamp in the streetIs swinging, tossing,Making the rain-runnelled window-glassGlitter and palpitate.In its silver lustreI can see the old four-post bed,With the fringes and balls of its canopy.You are lying beside me, waiting,But I do not turn.....’The giver of stars‘Hold your soul open for my welcoming.Let the quiet of your spirit bathe meWith its clear and rippled coolness,That,...

Wild Nights was a nice read. I wanted to read more classic poetry this year, this was a good place to start. I kinda thought I was going to get different poetry them what was in this book but I still enjoyed it. I thought I was going to get more women powering-ish poetry. While it was mostly love poetry, it was still good.However, I did find new poets who I can't wait to look into. There are a few poems I bookmarked, like 'Ee-Grass'', because I want to write them down. One of my favorite lines i...

Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets is a collection of poetry stretching from ancient times to the 20th century. Lisa Locascio provides the introduction and biographies of each of the poets. She holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature and MA in English Literature from the University of Southern California, as well as an MFA and BA from New York University.  Illustrations in this collection are by Claire WhitmoreWild Nights is a collection of selected works of Sappho, Emily D...