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12-13-2007, 10:08 PM
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Favorite poets
Anyone have a favorite poet?
Some of mine:
Czeslaw Milosz.
1980 Nobel Prize winner. Might be the most brilliant poet of the 20th century.
David Whyte
David Lee
Adrienne Rich
Mark Strand
Li Young Lee
Gary Soto
Anybody care to share?
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12-14-2007, 06:51 AM
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Baudelaire
Rimbaud
Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
Rupert Brooke
Jacques Prevert
Paul Verlaine
Edgar Allan Poe
Byron
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12-14-2007, 08:56 AM
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I have many favourites, and these few come to mind:
Pablo Neruda
Emily Dickinson
W. H. Auden
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12-14-2007, 09:55 AM
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Guess who? :)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ontheroad
I have many favourites, and these few come to mind:
Pablo Neruda
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I love Pablo Neruda...I used one of his poems (Sonnet 17) in my wedding. I like Yeats as well. |
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12-14-2007, 10:06 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by eyhossenlopp
I love Pablo Neruda...I used one of his poems (Sonnet 17) in my wedding. I like Yeats as well.
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I love Neruda as well, a wonderfully warm and human poet and his "Odes to Broken things" is one of my favourite . He also wrote some very potent Political pamphlets and was a great man.
Did you see the movie "Il Postino "? |
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12-14-2007, 12:26 PM
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I was just introduced this very day to a new poet: Kate Barnes. Apparently Ms. Barnes is Maine's Poet Laureate:
http://dll.umaine.edu/welcome/wom/poets.html |
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12-14-2007, 12:30 PM
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Also, if you are not aware, Knopf puts out a newsletter of poetry and in April, Poetry Month, they send out a daily poem. I was introduced to many contemporary poets by subscribing to this newsletter:
http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry/index.pperl
I've been subscribing for quite a few years. |
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12-14-2007, 12:33 PM
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"Standing On the Side of Love"
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#1 Mary Oliver my absolute favorite and for both my mother and fathers funeral I read a selection from her poems.
I also love Emily Dickinson and Carl Sandburg and am stirred by Whitman.
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12-15-2007, 07:15 PM
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This is a little easier than choosing a favorite poem.
For starters, Walt Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, Langston Hughes, Edward Lear, Shakespeare. . . hmm, maybe this isn't so easy. I haven't even finished with the old, dead guys, as the kids say.
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12-16-2007, 05:15 AM
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elston, i totally feel you about mary oliver. i just found her stuff earlier this year and i was blown away. "you just have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves..."
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