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bigfatmama style. So I'll ask again:
Recommend me a poet! I'm fairly ignorant. So make it "poetry for people who don't like poetry" or something. I dig narrative poems, but it's not essential. Seriously, the only books of poetry I have in my collection are Pablo Neruda, John Wieners, Marianne Moore, and Billy Collins. Yeah, I know, Billy Collins, don't cringe, but I really do love Picnic, Lightning. Frank O'Hara is coming in the mail, but I need something in the meantime. Oh, and Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon, I have that.
Now's your chance! I'm a fiction writer showing an interest in poetry that's not ridicule or disdain! Help me!
bigfatmama style. So I'll ask again:Recommend me a poet! I'm fairly ignorant. So make it "poetry for people who don't like poetry" or something. I dig narrative poems, but it's not essential. Seriously, the only books of poetry I have in my collection are Pablo Neruda, John Wieners, Marianne Moore, and Billy Collins. Yeah, I know, Billy Collins, don't cringe, but I really do love Picnic, Lightning. Frank O'Hara is coming in the mail, but I need something in the meantime. Oh, and Virginia Hamilton Adair, Ants on the Melon, I have that.
Now's your chance! I'm a fiction writer showing an interest in poetry that's not ridicule or disdain! Help me!
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best narrative poetry ever
Date: 2005-05-12 02:41 am (UTC)If you Google, you can find a bunch of stuff. I love him so much.
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Date: 2005-05-12 03:16 am (UTC)"Having nothing to lose
brings peace of mind:
one traveling without funds
need not fear thieves."
I also like Saul Williams..my favorite of his is "Sha Clack Clack". Occasionally, I like Rimbaud and Baudelaire, but they're sort of like marshmallow fluff. Good eatin' sometimes, but not for a steady diet.
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Date: 2005-05-12 03:21 am (UTC)And I personally enjoyed the poetry of Jean Genet.
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Date: 2005-05-12 04:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-05-12 03:31 am (UTC)Dorianne Laux
Marilyn Hacker
Kim Addonizio
Thomas Lynch
Mary Karr
Wendy Cope
Theodore Roethke
Margaret Atwood
E.E.Cummings
If you click on my "memories" I've keyworded a lot of my favorite poems & past poems of the day. You asked the right girl.
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Date: 2005-05-12 04:13 am (UTC)The first stanza of the first elegy:
What angel, if I called out, would hear me?
And even if one of them impulsively embraced me,
I'd be crushed by its strength. For beauty
is just the beginning of a terror we can barely stand:
we admire it because it calmly refuses to crush us.
Every angel terrifies. And so I control myself,
choking back the dark impulse to cry.
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Date: 2005-05-12 06:05 am (UTC)Every angel terrifies. Still, though I know
how almost-deadly you are, you birds of the soul,
I call out to you. Whatever happened to the days
of Tobias, when one of the most radiant of you
stood in the simple doorway, only slightly disguised
for the trip, and didn't seem frightening at all?
The young man peeked out, curious,
and mistook you for just another young man.
But if that same angel today, threatening,
should take even a step from behind the stars
and move in our direction, the hammering
of our own hearts would kill us. Who are you?
Fortunate firstborns, favorites of creation,
mountain ranges whose peaks were reddened
by the first morning, pollen of a blossoming God,
hinges of light, corridors stairways thrones
and spaces constructed of sheer existence,
shields of delight, roaring storms of rapture,
and suddenly, singly, mirrors, drawing back
into their faces the very beauty they've spilt.
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Date: 2005-05-12 06:11 am (UTC)What they all said.
Date: 2005-05-12 05:54 am (UTC)Rilke
Also, I recommend asking Breadloaf :)
Re: What they all said.
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Date: 2005-05-12 12:17 pm (UTC)Langston Hughes
Assata Shakur (she has poems in her autobiography)
Audre Lorde
ee cummings
Li Young Lee
Joy Harjo
Alice Walker
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Date: 2005-05-12 12:28 pm (UTC)Larissa Szporluk (Especially the book Isolato)
Lisel Mueller (Favorite poem: "Monet Refuses the Operation")
Ted Kooser (Poet Laureate and Nebraska Guy.)
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Date: 2005-05-12 12:38 pm (UTC)Van Jordan (former prof and current whitting award winner)
Dorothy Allison
NIkki Giovanni
Sylvia Plath
William Carlos William, the wheelbarrow guy. I heart that poem.
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Date: 2005-05-12 03:25 pm (UTC)Or, Jacqui Wolk. Although she's a bit heavy on the disdain.
More poop on local poets at www.chicagopoetry.com.
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Date: 2005-05-12 07:16 pm (UTC)The Ant
The ant has made himself illustrious
Through constant industry industrious.
So what?
Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid?
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Date: 2005-05-12 08:22 pm (UTC)http://voices.e-poets.net/artists.shtml
(e-poets is the premiere chicago poetry
website/library)
print poems:
lorna dee cervantes- poem for the young white man..
kim berez- poem for wicker park yuppies
*eduardo arocho- better than the movies
*jessica hagedorn
*june jordan- >>educator & created "poetry for the people"
*suheir hammad- first writing since
*sonia sanchez
*pedro pietri
*roque dalton
*eileen tabios
*marvin tate
*ernesto cardinal
performance & print:
*marty mcconnell- www.martymcconnell.com
*dj renegade
*lynne procope
*regie gibson- "the city is a woman whose water
is always breaking..."
*ursula rucker- supa sista
*saul williams- "i want to be/the one she calls/ on her
cigarette break/ not the cause of it.
*celena glenn- ranks 2nd in world poetry slam.
*bassey ikpi- http://www.basseyworld.com/main.php
(also in links a good resource for more poetry)
*anthologies:
bum rush the page
the spoken word revolution
aloud : voices from the nuyorican poets' café
against forgetting
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Date: 2005-05-12 08:56 pm (UTC)And
Oh and
Richard Brautigan
Date: 2005-05-13 10:22 pm (UTC)