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Lev Raphael's avatar

I've been a catholic reader since grade school and was very into sci-fi for years but basically stopped until Dune was published in 1980 or whenever. I've read it twice at least. But nothing else has drawn me in even when friends or students recommend an author. In terms of fantasy, I've enjoyed the first three Game of Thrones novels but never got into #4 and #5.

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Frank Dent's avatar

So many things are cross-genre these days. I wonder if you may be excluding things you’ll like because of the label on them.

For example, here are a couple of poems that might quicken your old interest in poetry.

The first one could also fall into your #2 category and, since it’s a narrative poem, #5 as well.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47104/the-curator

The second is perhaps the first Barbie poem; I don’t know of anything earlier. The poet’s sense of humor is startling and original.

https://poets.org/poem/kinky

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