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Irish poetry, you say?Flann O'Brien posted:
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# ? Aug 31, 2019 23:46 |
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EmmyOk posted:I finally decided to pick up some Yeats today. I'd been meaning to try some poetry because I'm not a lovely teenager in school anymore and I realised a lot of my favourite songs I liked because of the lyrics and wasn't too bothered about the music. So I decided to pick a famous one from my home country and I grew up holidaying in Sligo too because my da's family is from there. This is my poetry story. the second coming is a top choice if you want to make extremely shallow literary references to bulk out an article about some person or trend you don't like, otherwise the rest of yeats is just very very good except his earlier stuff which is kind of bad
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# ? Aug 31, 2019 23:55 |
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Thank you for the poems, pals, I will look at them before bed. We did a lot of Heaney, Montague, and Kavanagh in school but I never appreciated it at the time.CestMoi posted:the second coming is a top choice if you want to make extremely shallow literary references to bulk out an article about some person or trend you don't like, otherwise the rest of yeats is just very very good except his earlier stuff which is kind of bad This is the best reason to read poetry imo. I will also learn that Melville passage about the tahiti of the soul and ascend to my seat as the most powerful form of "dumb guy who knows one thing". A second poetry story I remember is in the final weeks of school we were preparing for the irish language literature paper and everyone was trying to predict what poems and poets would come up. Then one of the poets was busted trying to buy a boy for sex in nepal and it got a lot easier to predict what might not be on the paper after that.
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# ? Sep 1, 2019 00:07 |
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Language Lesson 1976 Heather McHugh When Americans say a man takes liberties, they mean he’s gone too far. In Philadelphia today I saw a kid on a leash look mom-ward and announce his fondest wish: one bicentennial burger, hold the relish. Hold is forget, in American. On the courts of Philadelphia the rich prepare to serve, to fault. The language is a game as well, in which love can mean nothing, doubletalk mean lie. I’m saying doubletalk with me. I’m saying go so far the customs are untold. Make nothing without words, and let me be the one you never hold.
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# ? Sep 5, 2019 07:45 |
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E. E. Cummings posted:next to of course god america i
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 23:32 |
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Hi. I'm new to poetry. What is everyone's favorite poetry books(collection??) ?
Eat The Rich fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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Eat The Rich posted:Hi. I'm new to poetry. What is everyone's favorite poetry books(collection??) ? https://twitter.com/peterbourgon/status/807757490310025216 Also the Edna St. Vincent Millay translations of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal basically though skim the thread above it's full of good poo poo Hieronymous Alloy fucked around with this message at 05:21 on Sep 7, 2019 |
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# ? Sep 7, 2019 05:18 |
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My mom left me a copy of Louis Untermeyer's A Treasury of Great Poems, and while it does show its age, it's still a great anthology.
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did anybody buy the newish english translation of the book of disquiet? is it good/better than the penguin classics one
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Eat The Rich posted:Hi. I'm new to poetry. What is everyone's favorite poetry books(collection??) ? Very big fan of Staying Alive, compiled by Neil Astley. My copy is dogeared and full of Post-it Notes marking poems that matter to me. It's put me onto a lot of interesting stuff that I wouldn't have otherwise found. The blurb on Amazon is a bit hippy, so see past that. As for yeats, I've always loved An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, just for the effortless construction and flow. I was happy as a pig to spot a line from it in Madeline Miller's Circe. quote:I know that I shall meet my fate
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death always reminds me of The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, which is rather more, uh, visceral: Randall Jarrell posted:
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Eat The Rich posted:Hi. I'm new to poetry. What is everyone's favorite poetry books(collection??) ? Definitely go for an anthology at first, preferably a big one, then flip around till you find something you like and follow our from there. If you happen to like birds, Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds is a good collection.
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Tree Goat posted:did anybody buy the newish english translation of the book of disquiet? is it good/better than the penguin classics one I did not. I have the penguin classics edition. Is there something wrong with it? I thought it was pretty good, though that book is depressing in a way few books are.
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cda posted:I did not. I have the penguin classics edition. Is there something wrong with it? I thought it was pretty good, though that book is depressing in a way few books are. no idea; it's the one i have too, but i have heard two (2) vague but positive things about the new edition
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I just read an extremely interesting and quite good long narrative poem called "The Voyage of the Sable Venus" by Robin Coste Lewis. The deal with the poem is, it's entirely made up of the titles, catalog entries, and exhibit descriptions of Western artworks which include a depiction of a black woman from 38,000 BCE to the present day. The only thing I can compare is the work of Susan Howe or Anne Carson, who also write poems where history is present is surprising ways and which have a jaunty fractured style that mines every last connotation and etymological ambiguity out of each word. If you're interested in what really out-there but strangely grounded poetry looks like, this is it. (I like a lot of Howe's books but my favorite is Articulation of Sound Forms in Time, for Carson, Autobiography of Red is a fan fave but Glass, Irony, and God is more history-y, I think)
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# ? Sep 16, 2019 03:56 |
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Have another Don Marquis: "the song of mehitabel," 1927. quote:this is the song of mehitabel
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# ? Oct 29, 2019 17:22 |
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Tree Goat posted:no idea; it's the one i have too, but i have heard two (2) vague but positive things about the new edition I have the new one and I've not read the penguin one but this new one is big and I'll probably never read the whole thing I've been reading poetry here and there recently, i agree with tree goat, maggie nelson is often very good, sometimes too precious but good. I read james schyuler's 'the morning of the poem' but I won't post it because it's like 80 pages mainly of stream-of-consciousness thought as he wakes up from his lover's bed and sits thinking while playing with his foreskin. basically, anyway. it was good i also got the giant louise gluck collection from the library and am just opening it to random pages occasionally. most of them are really good.
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ty for backing me up, although i will admit that my twee bullshit capacity is higher than most i got a collection from dg nanouk okpik on a whim and it’s okay so far and im learning a lot about scraping seal hide etc
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the creative convention poetry thread is back and this time its a thunderdome and i hate it all so much so i'm reading some vodennikov http://bigbridge.org/BB17/poetry/twentyfirstcenturyrussianpoetry/Dmitry_Vodennikov.html
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the creative convention poetry thunderdome thread created in november is already longer than this, the dedicated book forum thread for talking about poetry
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but which one has the most actually good poems?
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# ? Dec 7, 2019 15:21 |
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I've been flipping open random pages to the robert creely collection i got from the library, because i've liked a few of his poems before, but so far, I'm not really feeling most of them. they're often just quick bizarre snippets that I can't understand on any level
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CestMoi posted:the creative convention poetry thunderdome thread created in november is already longer than this, the dedicated book forum thread for talking about poetry u didn't warn me that the first round was haiku
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Zesty Mordant posted:I've been flipping open random pages to the robert creely collection i got from the library, because i've liked a few of his poems before, but so far, I'm not really feeling most of them. they're often just quick bizarre snippets that I can't understand on any level I used to like him when I was in high school but haven't really read him since then, as I recall most of the poems were lyrical, highly abstracted, mostly about ordinary things elevated through that abstraction, and bc of that always at least partially about the potential of language to represent & to refuse representation. also he only had one eye for some reason, like a bad rear end
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Dylan Thomas posted:"Get back to the Presents." Read the whole thing, if you haven't already. Selachian fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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important news https://lithub.com/lord-byron-used-to-call-william-wordsworth-turdsworth-and-yes-this-is-a-real-historical-fact/
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Tree Goat posted:important news https://lithub.com/lord-byron-used-to-call-william-wordsworth-turdsworth-and-yes-this-is-a-real-historical-fact/ got em
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Tree Goat posted:important news https://lithub.com/lord-byron-used-to-call-william-wordsworth-turdsworth-and-yes-this-is-a-real-historical-fact/ i somehow already knew this but im not sure how
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the library finally sent me david berman's 'actual air' and it's really good. the fact that he was mentored by james tate is obvious but I think he succeeds more often by venturing into that valley between the absurd and the lifelike, like a harmony korine movie that's so real it's surreal. Governors on Sominex posted:It had been four days of no weather
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# ? Jan 20, 2020 05:11 |
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molly brodak died recently and unexpectedly and i liked her work, thanks
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I know this is a slow thread but I appreciate that it's here and I've read some great poems thanks to it.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:let's have some good proper british poems that every red-blooded man and boy ought to appreciate Me, in real life, just now me and some folks walking out of a bar friend of mine, his shoe's untied i say "hey man, your shoe's untied" he says "I'm fine with it" I say "ok, so long as you're master of your sole"
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British poems, you say? John Cooper Clarke, "Evidently Chicken Town" posted:The bloody cops are bloody keen
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Last Week, Last Night, Daily, and Forever I’m your host, Dick Missile. Today’s story: Skintight anchors in the newsroom. No wiggling, no wrinkles. Padded. Bulging, but no hint of illegitimate nipple. Power tie limp like member. Empowered female hosts artfully assembled for your pleasure, but standing front and center I’m your host, Dick Missile launched into contested airspace plunging towards milk warm seas. Cut to commercial. Smoke break. Buttoned-down cardigan above desk, bermuda shorts unzipped and off-camera. Nothing below the waist ever shown, ever. Straighten tie. I’m your host, Dick Missile, today sitting with it tucked tight, folded twice, stuffed into a cotton hammock twisted fifteen times and zip-tied to keep from getting out, touching co-hosts, guest celebrities, rampaging through the studio, tongue leaving slug trail of mucous across the buzzing static glass, screaming through clear walls pasted with pheromones thick as fog and molotov sex chemicals keeping eye-contact with co-hosts like trying to hit the moon with rocket and pocket calculator. Eyes up, and count me in three, two, one, aaaaand we’re back. I’m your host Dick Missile, and today we’re talking about inappropriate touching in the workplace. How far is too far, and when no means yes. Tie rising out of sport’s jacket. Silk on silk. Creeping in interview. Obvious pattern begging to be seen, touched. Pushed down. Rubbed by fingers and smoothed out. I’m Dick Missile and we’ll be right back after this commercial break. Cigar. Make-up retouched. Sweat wiped from brow by curvy new assistant. Young but fair game. Mental note. Rolodex. Promotion honeypot? Decide later. Read prep notes. War in the Middle East. Rights for Women. Protestors marching naked through Washington and lap dances at the Lincoln Memorial. Assistant count-in. Turn to camera, point at screen. Welcome back, America. I’m your host Dick Missile, last week, last night, daily and forever. MartingaleJack fucked around with this message at 22:16 on May 18, 2022 |
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Re chicken town, I’ve heard that sung (to the tune of twinkle twinkle) as “Bloody, Bloody Orkney”. One of my favourites, from the clever, dead and poly modern Chinese poet Gu Cheng (顾城): Gu Cheng posted:Clouds To me it’s an amazing description of a terrible date.
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Edward Lear, The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò posted:I Selachian fucked around with this message at 00:25 on May 16, 2022 |
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So I'm looking for good modern poetry does anyone have good collections on hand that I should get from the library?
Lawman 0 fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Dec 25, 2022 |
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I love poems But i hate rhyming and meter and repetition So i guess i hate poems
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Lawman 0 posted:So I'm looking for good modern poetry does anyone have good collections on hand that I should get from the library? how modern (or i guess lower case or upper case Modern) and what do you like currently
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Tree Goat posted:how modern (or i guess lower case or upper case Modern) and what do you like currently I'm dumb as a stump and would like something for my baby STEM brain. Start me out with baby's first modern poetry.
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