3 Poets

[Angeline]

Name three poets whose work you love, admire, emulate, etc., and for each, say why in ten words or less. If you've read enough of someone's work to know you like that poet, you should be able to summarize why, right?

If you want to be fancy and post poems or links to them, feel free.

Here's mine:*

William Butler Yeats: lyrical, musical and authentic

Ted Berrigan: funny, surprising, colloquial

Forough Farrokhzad: sensual, feminine

* There's lots more than three on my list as I suppose is so for yours, too. So feel free to do multiple posts if you want. Why 3 per post? I dunno--it's a smallish bite of poetry for a reader to chew if he or she chewses.

 

[bogusagain]

Adrian Mitchell punkish, political, angry

Carolyn Forche political, poignant, aching

Frederick Seidel reportage from planet high life, decadent, vanitas

I could add to that list but they are three poets I keep going back to.

Links work now!

 

[bflagsst]

Yeats- father, collar-bone of a hare

Dylan Thomas- son, under milk wood

Neruda- holy spirit, song of despair and the 20

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Philip Larkin strangely sensitive, very readable.

Lorna Crozier honest, unpretentious.

Michael Ondaatje fabulous wordsmith, emotional poetry.

 

[bogusagain]

So feel free to do multiple posts if you want

You said it Ange.

Tony Harrison commanding, rhythmic, turns the colloquial into poetry

Marvin Bell poignant, tragic, hillarious

Simon Armitage meloncholic, observant, modern

 

[Angeline]

So feel free to do multiple posts if you want

You said it Ange.

Tony Harrison commanding, rhythmic, turns the colloquial into poetry

Marvin Bell poignant, tragic, hillarious

Simon Armitage meloncholic, observant, modern

I did and I'm glad for the multiple posts, so there! I'm already seeing poets I'm not very familiar with, so I'm loving the opportunity to learn. And I'm not only reading new (for me) poetry, I'm also getting some insight into who influences those of you are are willing to post here.

Here's 3 more for me:

Frank O'Hara: quintessentially American New Yorker, intimate and universal, reminds me of home

Adrienne Rich: modern, introspective, intellectual but also earthy and compassionate

Billy Collins deceptively simple, accessible, his poems make me smile

 

[twelveoone]

Name three poets whose work you love, admire, emulate, etc., and for each, say why in ten words or less. If you've read enough of someone's work to know you like that poet, you should be able to summarize why, right?

If you want to be fancy and post poems or links to them, feel free.

Admire, but really don't like
Yeats- master of end rhyme
Frost- never reach closure with him, always something more there
Ezra Pound - i sorta like, voicing, rhythm

 

[bogusagain]

Billy Collins deceptively simple, accessible, his poems make me smile

Me and Billy have history.

There are some interesting poets being thrown up. This has the making of a good thread.

 

[twelveoone]

LOVE

http://fleursdumal.org/Charles Baudelaire
10 words, c'mon, alright you can't translate the bastard

Paul Celan
painful take in small doses

Friedrich Hölderlin
let's say he was taken up by the wrong crowd

 

[Angeline]

Admire, but really don't like
Yeats- master of end rhyme
Frost- never reach closure with him, always something more there
Ezra Pound - i sorta like, voicing, rhythm

I want to see the three you really do like.

ETA: thanks you just did!

Me and Billy have history.

There are some interesting poets being thrown up. This has the making of a good thread.

I forgot about how we (the poets of this forum) got you over your Billy-phobia. It was a good thing all round. We weren't going to let some woman ruin him for you!

I've been reading and studying John Ashbery lately. I like him a lot--and can see his influence on many poets I do like--but I don't understand him enough yet to say anything that would summarize him beyond "difficult."

 

[twelveoone]

Me and Billy have history.

There are some interesting poets being thrown up. This has the making of a good thread.

I liked this part.

Ange? Billy again?

and this part, too!

By the way, if I ever meet billy, I'm kicking him.

 

[Angeline]

I liked this part.

Bogus ain't the only one who has history with Billy.

I'm finding a bunch of Holderlin in translation. Maybe it's the translations but he comes across sounding surprisingly modern given when he was writing.

 

[twelveoone]

Bogus ain't the only one who has history with Billy.

I'm finding a bunch of Holderlin in translation. Maybe it's the translations but he comes across sounding surprisingly modern given when he was writing.

Michael Hamberg (not sure) translated his fragments. Written right before he went mad. He was reaching for something. No, it's not the translations. See if you can get two translations of "Middle of Life".

 

[Angeline]

Michael Hamberg (not sure) translated his fragments. Written right before he went mad. He was reaching for something. No, it's not the translations. See if you can get two translations of "Middle of Life".

Interesting. I found four different translations. I liked this one best, primarily because of the line "into the holy, neutral waters." I didn't like the translations that changed that line.

The earth hangs down
to the lake, full of yellow
pears and wild roses.
Lovely swans, drunk with
kisses you dip your heads
into the holy, neutral waters.
But when winter comes,
where will I find
the flowers, the sunshine,
the shadows of the earth?
The walls stand
speechless and cold:
the weathervanes
rattle in the wind.

But yes it's Romantic (pastoral and passionate), so of its period, but otherwise pretty uncharacteristic with the kind of wavering voice (hard to know who the narrator is and who is addressing whom) and an underlying anxiety I'd normally associate with post-modernism. Ergo, if you're crazy your poetry sounds more modern, more dissociated.

 

[twelveoone]

Interesting. I found four different translations. I liked this one best, primarily because of the line "into the holy, neutral waters." I didn't like the translations that changed that line.

The earth hangs down
to the lake, full of yellow
pears and wild roses.
Lovely swans, drunk with
kisses you dip your heads
into the holy, neutral waters.
But when winter comes,
where will I find
the flowers, the sunshine,
the shadows of the earth?
The walls stand
speechless and cold:
the weathervanes
rattle in the wind.

But yes it's Romantic (pastoral and passionate), so of its period, but otherwise pretty uncharacteristic with the kind of wavering voice (hard to know who the narrator is and who is addressing whom) and an underlying anxiety I'd normally associate with post-modernism. Ergo, if you're crazy your poetry sounds more modern, more dissociated.

Oh, Damn, I posted this once before, now I'll to go find it again, the one I liked was ambiguous, and then the weathervanes really clanged.

here is a link
but I'm sure someone had translated as Middle of Life, it's been years since I've read him.

 

[greenmountaineer]

Ladies First

Louise Bogan for her grit.


Mary Karr She's spiritual but still can cuss like a sailor.


Elizabeth Bishop lived her life as she saw fit.

 

[theognis]

William Shakespeare

Sonnets. Especially 18, 116, and 91.

 

[HarryHill]

Wonderful thread

A lot of meat here, trying to eat it all from this table of pot luck fare.
..
Percy Bysshe Shelly...'A Fragment to Song' ... (not the one I wanted)
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-fragment-to-music/

Rudyard Kippling
..
Abraham Lincoln

 

[Angeline]

A lot of meat here, trying to eat it all from this table of pot luck fare.

It's a good way to explore beyond what we write here, I think.

So where's your three?

 

[bflagsst]

my favorite hoity-toity is Robert Herrick due to his out of touch sensualism.

my favorite 19th century poet is Elizabeth Barrett because of how hard she owned Portuguese and the sonnet. If I had to choose between Shakey and EBB, I take EBB.

my favorite female poet is Joyce Mansour due to her eroticism.

 

[twelveoone]

my favorite hoity-toity is Robert Herrick due to his out of touch sensualism.

my favorite 19th century poet is Elizabeth Barrett because of how hard she owned Portuguese and the sonnet. If I had to choose between Shakey and EBB, I take EBB.

my favorite female poet is Joyce Mansour due to her eroticism.

the elephant man?
this bears some investigatin? owned the sonnet?
how does joyce pronounce her last name?

 

[twelveoone]

amerikanische
Poe, ho,ho,ho
Eliot before he became English
Bukowski, when he wasn't trying to write poetry
alright four
Ginsberg, when he actually did write poetry
Bukowski and Ginsberg only count for half, see

 

[twelveoone]

Name three poets whose work you love, admire, emulate, etc., and for each, say why in ten words or less.

from Literotica
annaswirls and alts, once she had you inside the poem, she had you
WickedEve the original, not the 2008 pod person, showed a constantly shifting image, no idolization or demonization
Me, who I can emulate rather well

 

[bogusagain]

amerikanische
Poe, ho,ho,ho
Eliot before he became English
Bukowski, when he wasn't trying to write poetry
alright four
Ginsberg, when he actually did write poetry
Bukowski and Ginsberg only count for half, see

I've got to say, I like Bukowski and Ginsberg but both are very eratic.

Was The Wasteland before Eliot became English?

 

[bflagsst]

the elephant man?
this bears some investigatin? owned the sonnet?
how does joyce pronounce her last name?

he was an ugly anglo may have never touched a lady
shakes best forty-four against ebb's in a single elimination tournament
talk like an Egyptian, I guess