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Eluard

Eluard

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In the spirit of Seventeen magazine and Tiger Beat let’s hear your top ten favourite poets from anywhere in the world at any time. Well, anywhere but on Literotica of course — this is not intended to be another Lit circle jerk. So, barring all personnel who post on Literotica, including yourself, who do you love? C’mon — share.

Here is mine, in no particular order.

1. Eugenio Montale

2. Ted Hughes

3. Sylvia Plath

4. Yves Bonnefoy

5. Paul Celan

6. John Ashbery

7. W.B. Yeats

8. T.S. Eliot

9. Rainer Maria Rilke

10. Paul Eluard

In days gone by Cesar Vallejo would certainly have been on the list, but I’ve moved on and haven’t read him for years.

So let’s hear yours…
 
Other than reading everything I could find by E. E. Cummings when I was in high school and college (and a bit later discovering Kenneth Koch), I hadn't read much in the way of poetry until a couple years ago. Accordingly, this list is somewhat arbitrary.

But what the hey. It's just a list.
  1. Kenneth Koch is a no brainer as my very favorite poet.
  2. William Butler Yeats is a pretty close second, though.
  3. Sylvia Plath ranks right up there too.
  4. Kim Addonizio makes me hot.
  5. W. H. Auden writes poems so well I despair of even trying to write them myself.
  6. William Carlos Williams does that too.
  7. James Wright's poems have such elegance about them that they make me jealous.
  8. Alan Dugan is, like, way underrated, in my opinion. He rocks.
  9. C. K. Williams fascinates me with his characteristic long (long) lines.
  10. E. E. Cummings was the first poet whose work I loved.
 
I must say it is pretty pathetic that only two people responded to this. :p
 
Eluard said:
I must say it is pretty pathetic that only two people responded to this. :p
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Hey hey hey. Maybe SOME of us want to take our time and get our lists together, and maybe SOME of us are just major retards with the links and stuff and can't quite get our shit together to do it yet.

I'm NOT pathetic.

okay, actually I am. But that means you have to feel sorry for me. So I win.

bijou
 
unpredictablebijou said:
Hey hey hey. Maybe SOME of us want to take our time and get our lists together, and maybe SOME of us are just major retards with the links and stuff and can't quite get our shit together to do it yet.

I'm NOT pathetic.

okay, actually I am. But that means you have to feel sorry for me. So I win.

bijou
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Your NOT PATHETIC badge is in the mail — but it will self destruct if there is not something on this thread in…ooooo…a week. Links are optional — as are the cuffs they go into.
 
Eluard said:
I must say it is pretty pathetic that only two people responded to this. :p
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Call it what you will, pumpkin. ;) I'm not savvy enough to play the name-dropping game. I've had my moments with Plath, cummings, Collins, Neruda and who else that have slipped my mind. I've had equally poetic experiences with Shakespeare comedies, Charlie Cristensen comics, Sarah Bettens rock lyrics, Banksy, Loesje, Gary Larson, Piet Hein, the Dissoi Logoi, Platonian dialogs and Sarah Silverman standup routines.
 
In no particular order...

1.) Wislawa Symborska
2.) Sylvia Plath
3.) Adrienne Rich
4.) Yosano Akiko
5.) Hart Crane
6.) Vachel Lindsay
7.) W. C. Williams
8.) Floetry (actually two people... does it count?)
9.) Kobayashi Issa
10.) Neruda or Kunitz... or...
 
Eluard said:
Your NOT PATHETIC badge is in the mail — but it will self destruct if there is not something on this thread in…ooooo…a week. Links are optional — as are the cuffs they go into.
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You are so totally not the boss of me. But okay. A list. With ten things on it. But I'm not going to tell you what the list is, what it means, or why I chose what I chose. Some have links and some don't. And it's woefully thin in dead white men of the 18th and 19th centuries so I'm gonna lose points there, I just know it.

Perhaps it's Poets You (the royal you) Should be Paying More Attention To.

Ten, in no particular order.

Mervyn Peake
http://www.mervynpeake.org/poet.html

Edward Gorey
links unavailable
(Most particularly recommended: The Curious Sofa and The Deranged Cousins)

Chocolate Waters
http://www.chocolatewaters.com/poems/

Anne Sexton

Yeshe Tsogyal
http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/tsogyal.html#anchor84413

Tee Corinne
Links too hard for a luddite to find

Rumi
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-will-beguile-him-with-the-tongue/

Victor Anderson
http://www.lilithslantern.com/strange.htm

Rob Brezsny
http://freewillastrology.com/beauty/prayer.html

Gertrude Stein
http://www.bartleby.com/140/1.html

Honorable mention: Dead White Men category
Rilke
Swinburne
Chaucer
Byron
Pope
Dylan Thomas
William S. Burroughs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EpTIfEgYP4
Richard Brautigan
http://www.brautigan.net/mercury.html

So there. Pleh.
bijou
 
unpredictablebijou said:
Perhaps it's Poets You (the royal you) Should be Paying More Attention To.

So there. Pleh.
bijou
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Yessum ma'am!

And thank you for your time and your list.

Actually I've got something from this thread already: the second recommendation in a month for the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska. Amazon are winging it to me as we speak.
 
Eluard said:
Yessum ma'am!

And thank you for your time and your list.

Actually I've got something from this thread already: the second recommendation in a month for the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska. Amazon are winging it to me as we speak.
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Well okay then.

But are you checking out Mervyn Peake? I'm seriously serious about his work particularly - more people should recognize him. And it's one of my better finds, linkwise.

bijou
 
so far in my youngster stage of poetry, i've found and begun my poetry shelf with something from each of these poets...

Thomas Hardy
excerpt from The Sound of Her
I entered her home in the tenderest mood
of keen anticipatings;
I stood in the room where I often had stood
Amid the old household things.

Robert Frost
except from To a Moth Seen in Winter
Here's first a gloveless hand warm from my pocket,
A perch and resting place 'twixt wood and wood,
Bright-black-eyed silvery creature, brushed with brown,
The wings not folded in repose, but spread.

Bob Hicok
excerpt from Rearview Mirror
I saw her bounce on the passenger seat
at the red light as I dialed
from Aerosmith to Vivaldi to news,
a sequence interleaved with the aural dust
of static.

Kim Addonizio
excerpt from At Moss Beach
At night along this coast the boats
slipped to shore with their illegal cargo.
The long cars waited, lights hushed,
for the liquor to be hauled up the cliff.

The Bronte Sisters
from Winter Stores
We take from life one little share,
And say that this shall be
A space, redeemed from toil and care,
From tears and sadness free.

Archibald MacLeish
Autumn
.....Sun smudge on the smoky water

Byron
from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
XCVIII
The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb-
And glowing into day: we may resume
The march of our existence: and thus I,
Still on thy shores, fair Leman! may find room
And food for meditation, nor pass by
Much, that may give us pause if ponder'd fittingly.


i will add kiwi poet
Sam Hunt at some point - just because.

so really, i only have seven so far. roll on my next lifetime! ;)
 
unpredictablebijou said:
Well okay then.

But are you checking out Mervyn Peake? I'm seriously serious about his work particularly - more people should recognize him. And it's one of my better finds, linkwise.

bijou
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Yes, I've had a look. An interesting list and some I will definitely follow up. This is a good way to get introduced to some new voices.

ta! :rose:
 
I want to put in a word here for Frank O'Hara. I've only just got his collected poems and started reading — but he is a truly wonderful poet. Well worth everyone investigating!
 
Eluard said:
I must say it is pretty pathetic that only two people responded to this. :p
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Shhh...I'm making crib notes and planning forays into the Web and my local library even as I type this...hehehe Was perfect running into this this week, since I was just reminding myself a few days ago that I needed to hit the library and get back to reading more (esp since I seem to not be writing much of late).

Yes, that means I don't have a list right now...at least not of 10 poets. I know I like Poe and Bukowski (too lazy for spellchecking right now), and could prolly name several others if pushed to it, but need more research first.




:cool:
 
Remec said:
...I don't have a list right now...at least not of 10 poets.
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Then use a different number system. Hey, in binary you only have to come up with two poets to get to ten. Take this example, using my (decimal ten) list. Say I could only come up with two poets that were like ones I really liked. No problem! Binary arithmetic comes to me aid:
1. Kenneth Koch
10. William Butler Yeats​
See? Hey presto! You get to ten in two!

Same thing however many you think on. Just make the last one ten. As long as you don't overflow decimalic digits, (eh?), you'll be alright in numberdom.

El will like that. He does numbers guy. :rolleyes:
 
Eluard said:
In the spirit of Seventeen magazine and Tiger Beat let’s hear your top ten favourite poets from anywhere in the world at any time. Well, anywhere but on Literotica of course — this is not intended to be another Lit circle jerk. So, barring all personnel who post on Literotica, including yourself, who do you love? C’mon — share.

Here is mine, in no particular order.

1. Eugenio Montale

2. Ted Hughes

3. Sylvia Plath

4. Yves Bonnefoy

5. Paul Celan

6. John Ashbery

7. W.B. Yeats

8. T.S. Eliot

9. Rainer Maria Rilke

10. Paul Eluard

In days gone by Cesar Vallejo would certainly have been on the list, but I’ve moved on and haven’t read him for years.

So let’s hear yours…
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Can't do myself? After pissing on Plath, Olds, Bukowski, that blackbird guy? Shame. Interesting list. Celan, Vallejo, damn. Eliot. I guess Yeats is up there ''cause he's so freakin' good.
In no order.
I haven't moved away from Cesar Vallejo.
Paul Celan
T.S. Eliot maybe if I had to, #2 spot.
Maria Negroni induces dreams
Ezra Pound sometimes
Friedrich Hölderlin #1

And I admit I have a fondness for Bukowski, but feel dirty sneakin a read.
Speakin' of Reed:
Duck and Sally inside
they took her forty down five
Who's laying in the graveyard
she's licking up her pig pen
Oh, you shouldn't do that
don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Oh man, don't you know you'll stain the carpet
ain't that just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
Oh babe, I couldn't hit it sideways
Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, I couldn't hit it, hit it sideways
Then I, woh-oh, not that just like Sister Ray said

Yeah they don't write lyrics like that anymore.

Dante
Stéphane Mallarmé
 
FifthFlower said:
Thanks, bijou. I found a children's story by Mervyn Peake in the library that was wonderful.
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Kewl! Which one? And may I recommend his novel Mr. Pye, if you can find it? It's too fabulous.

bijou
 
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