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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 14, 2011 3:04:06 GMT -5
And she used excessive dashes before journalists made them cool. I wish I had some of the essays from around my sophmore year in college. I was reading a lot of Dickinson, and using a lot of dashes (like seriously all of my papers looked perforated). I thought I was really posh, though. Thankfully my teacher told me I was being a fathead. What're you talking about -- the em-dash is totally posh. Every time I use it, I stick my nose in the air -- isn't that the point? |
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Post by Lilt on Jun 14, 2011 14:30:45 GMT -5
I wish I had some of the essays from around my sophmore year in college. I was reading a lot of Dickinson, and using a lot of dashes (like seriously all of my papers looked perforated). I thought I was really posh, though. Thankfully my teacher told me I was being a fathead. What're you talking about -- the em-dash is totally posh. Every time I use it, I stick my nose in the air -- isn't that the point? *Adjusts lorgnette -- nods sagely* |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 14, 2011 14:57:49 GMT -5
What're you talking about -- the em-dash is totally posh. Every time I use it, I stick my nose in the air -- isn't that the point? *Adjusts lorgnette -- nods sagely* Hot damn -- I love you for using that word. ("lorgnette" -- though "sagely" is a nice word, too.) |
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Post by ashleeoh on Jun 20, 2011 9:17:01 GMT -5
Whoa, whoa, where is Anne Sexton? Also Edna St. Vincent Millay AND Margaret Atwood. Seriously, go look them up on the poetry foundation, I'll wait. Of course there's also Audre Lorde, June Jordan (her 'poem about my rights' is my favorite, hands down), Mary Oliver ("Wild Geese"!), Dorothy Parker (who is hilarious), W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, A.D. Hope, Lucille Clifton, Maya Angelou, Adrienne Rich, Louise Glück, e.e. cummings, Mary Karr, and A.E. Stallings. ...I may be kind of burned out on novels and reading poetry instead. ETA: SARAH TEASDALE! And also Pablo Neruda and Elizabeth Bishop, omgggg I am a terrible person. Thank you! I'm now off to update my Amazon wish list accordingly. |
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Post by Eternal Lobster on Jun 21, 2011 19:08:58 GMT -5
Hey, hey, where are the more contemporary poets, the lesser known? Sandra Cisneros may be known for novel and short stories, but I picked up Loose Woman the other day and loved it. It is not everyday that you read a poem that so eloquently -- or not -- describes menstruation.
Ellen Bass is another one, who I discovered through my Women's Lit class. I think she's bisexual. Very funny and yet poignant. There are a couple recorded readings on YT which you all should go look up. Especially the one, if I remember correctly, for Obama.
I went to a reading of the Illinois Poet Laureate, Kevin Stein. I won't lie, I cried as he read one or two of his poems. I never realized just how much you miss out in poetry when you don't have it read to you from the author, without the inflections, pauses, and pronunciations. It was brilliant. I got to talk to him afterward. He's very encouraging of those poets who are just starting out.
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Post by Pencils on Jun 21, 2011 21:08:49 GMT -5
Hey, hey, where are the more contemporary poets, the lesser known? Sandra Cisneros may be known for novel and short stories, but I picked up Loose Woman the other day and loved it. It is not everyday that you read a poem that so eloquently -- or not -- describes menstruation. Props to the lesser known contemporary poets! I myself love love love Lauren Zuniga--she's actually my state's Poet Laureate, and on top of being a plain awesome poet, she's a performance poet, which I love, Also, Natasha Trethewey. Her poems are like treasure hunts. Every time you read them, you find something new and awesome about them. She's a master. In the vein of better known contemporary poets, I love me some Billy Collins and WS Merwin...jussayin'. |
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Post by ebrownie on Jun 21, 2011 21:46:52 GMT -5
I am surprised that none of my favourite poets have been listed yet!
Dylan Thomas
Dorothy Parker
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Post by Inquisitive White Rabbit on Jul 21, 2011 20:42:21 GMT -5
I'd have to say that my top Favorites are: - Thomas Hardy - Vera Brittain - Wilfred Owen - Ivor Gurney - Edgar Allan Poe And for what it's worth, I grew up with and will ALWAYS love Shell Silverstein. Shoot, I can still recite "The Nap Taker" by heart.  At least, my little cousin used to love it. |
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Post by tosney on Jul 24, 2011 21:54:18 GMT -5
Y'know, I'd really love to study more poetry but I haven't had much opportunity to. I did some exploring myself and discovered:
- Emily Dickinson
- William Carlos Williams
- Pablo Neruda
My favorite poems are short and say so much with so little and/or are really pleasant to listen to because they're so harmonic and lovely and use such wonderful words and phrases.
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Post by imaginarymelodies on Jul 30, 2011 1:03:23 GMT -5
Mine would have to be:
- Charles Bukowski
- Sylvia Plath
- John Keats
- Catherine Bateson (Australian)
- Scott Patrick-Mitchell (Australian)
Also would like to mention Miranda Aitken, who is another Australian poet of whom I have only read one poem, but it was amazing. I also frequently read as many Australian literary journals as I can get my hands on - usually have new and exciting poems. Plath and Bukowski will always be close favorites of mine, however. As well as Scott-Patrick Mitchell, he's a new and upcoming Australian poet who I had the pleasure of meeting this year - very contemporary and innovative poems.
Sorry for the long rant!
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At least, my little cousin used to love it.
