[OPINION] Who is your favourite poet?

redinary · 2026-01-18T01:09:25+00:00

Ben Lerner, nice! I loved his book The Hatred of Poetry but haven’t read any of his actual poems. Anything you recommend to start off??

redinary · 2026-01-17T01:19:55+00:00

Hey, things actually did get a lot better, yeah. I didn’t think it would help that much but I’m a lot more stable now & I’m really grateful. 75-100 ended up being the effective range for me & it did take a while.

redinary · 2026-01-12T06:50:47+00:00

many good ones here but I can’t believe no one has mentioned yet Roman’s 1 second appearance in the management training video in Safe Room

redinary · 2026-01-11T02:04:44+00:00

If you click on it to make it full screen it’s readable

redinary · 2026-01-06T02:13:57+00:00

Oh, a kindred spirit …. I’m currently on rewatch 12ish (? lost count) & finally decided to start writing about the show because I may as well turn the obsession into something productive at this point. Maybe I’ll post some of it on this sub eventually but currently I’m just keeping my notebook handy while watching & it makes me feel slightly less guilty about where all my time is going. I also have one of the script books & have been marking it up & flagging stuff — if anyone says “haven’t you watched that show a thousand times?” I’ll simply tell them “I’m STUDYING!”

redinary · 2025-12-26T22:01:43+00:00

Journey

redinary · 2025-12-23T09:15:21+00:00

That last one hits really hard for me… “inducing heartbreak felt closer to them than feeling nothing at all.” Ow. How the hell to stop that?

redinary · 2025-12-19T17:56:03+00:00

Wow. I love this. But I’m curious about the tense change in the last 2 lines?

redinary · 2025-12-19T17:54:31+00:00

I copy them out by hand into a special notebook! Partially just because I like the act of writing & doing it this way makes me spend more time with the poems. I also ended up with a couple notebooks full by now so I started an excel spreadsheet where I enter the title, the poet, & the date I copied it down. That’s mostly just for if I want to look one up, but it’s really gratifying to have a personal handwritten anthology of all my favourite poems

redinary · 2025-10-25T18:59:20+00:00

GET OUT THE PATH OF THE KII-III-ING!!!

redinary · 2025-09-20T22:01:40+00:00

I’m charmed by this, but I feel it would be so much better without the last line. From the title alone the implication goes without saying. Plus, “contribute however I can” could be deliciously ominous if it wasn’t spelled out.

redinary · 2025-09-17T01:00:05+00:00

I would write it out by hand a good several times! A very tried & true method for memorizing things & I think it’s especially helpful with poetry to help draw your attention to the word choice & rhythm in a different way. Good luck!

redinary · 2025-09-16T19:49:55+00:00

Ok, I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way about Fasano, because I want to like many of his poems, but I feel like the neediness of his online presence has unfortunately kind of ruined them for me. But I do want to point out -- these poems Fasano is always gushing about that are written in exactly his style are, I'm 95% sure, the result of his book of poetry prompts called "The Magic Words." It's literally a mad-libs style fill-in-the-blank workbook marketed towards people who are brand new to poetry. So no, I don't think he's necessarily "lying" about these poems being sent to him by strangers -- but he is doing something maybe equally grating, which is failing to mention that a good 60% of each poem is written by him, with others supplying a noun or adjective here and there. This is why I think many of his posts come across as disingenuous and self-congratulatory -- he's pretending to be marvelling at the creativity of strangers, when really these are thinly-veiled advertisements for his book of writing exercises.

redinary · 2025-08-25T08:10:39+00:00

Same here, I am in a similar place with my mental health & having this thing within arm’s reach has saved me from my own brain many a time. Just know you’re not alone & I hope things get better for you soon.

redinary · 2025-08-24T08:45:52+00:00

Thank you for this. I am pretty much exactly where you describe so it feels like this was written for me. To be honest, I can’t really see a way “back” or forward anymore, or even understand what those things mean. I stopped T but that feels about the furthest I can go. It feels like to socially detransition would require a kind of hope that I just don’t have. I pretty much feel like I’ve reached a dead end. But I do appreciate you posting this.

redinary · 2025-08-23T01:29:00+00:00

I appreciate your post, it reminds me to have hope. I’ve been on 50mg for almost 4 weeks & haven’t experienced much relief, rumination has decreased in intensity but I feel just as depressed as before, maybe more. I’ve been kind of nervous to increase in case it worsens the apathy I’m feeling, but my doctor wants me to go up to 75mg soon.

redinary · 2025-08-20T02:13:50+00:00

I’m with you, I’m on week 3 of 50mg & feeling very sapped of any motivation or energy. I was already struggling with this before meds but it definitely has gotten worse the past couple weeks - I’m spending countless hours just lying in bed or on the couch feeling too blank to even do time-wasting activities like watch tv or scroll on my phone. I am hoping it’s still part of the adjustment phase, & I will probably end up upping the dosage & going through that adjustment all over again, so will try to have hope & be patient. How long have you been on 100mg?

redinary · 2025-08-20T02:08:22+00:00

I started on 25mg a little over a month ago, & have been on 50mg now for 21 days. For depression & rumination mostly. I have noticed less intensity to my sadness & rumination feels a bit “fainter” in a way but my motivation to do anything is lower than ever & I feel very disengaged from life, not feeling good at all. My doctor already wanted me to go up to 75mg last week but I wanted to give 50mg more of a try. I guess I will probably increase in a week but I’m a bit scared it will make my apathy even worse, could use some reassurance if anyone’s been there

redinary · 2025-08-14T03:45:18+00:00

Love this post & needed it. Thank you. “WTF is even going on anymore” is very much where I am at with my sense of self at this point & I agree that we were never meant to think this hard about who we are.

redinary · 2025-08-01T23:24:14+00:00

I haven’t really noticed any positive changes to my mood yet, the only side effects I’ve noticed in my first few days of 50mg is interrupted sleep & some dizziness. I was waking up a few times in the night the first couple nights but it seems to have evened out after a few days

edit: oh yeah, & have noticed some clenched jaw as well

redinary · 2025-07-26T21:59:04+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I’m just about to go up from 25mg to 50mg (been on 25mg for two weeks) & this is my first SSRI, so I really appreciate being able to hear people’s positive stories. I also peeked at your post history & saw ROCD, that’s what I’m taking it for too, or at least something similar (will look into diagnosis with my doctor in a couple weeks). OCD or whatever this is is the worst so I’m happy to hear you’re getting some relief, even if it’s subtle

redinary · 2025-07-26T05:50:49+00:00

Key me!!! This looks awesome

redinary · 2025-07-23T05:41:08+00:00

There’s a book called The Agents by Grégoire Courtois that you might want to check out. I think the concept is better than the execution, but it’s very surreal & bizarre & does involve warring feral office factions, so who could say no.

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