Real Poetry (Don't you hate such vague terms?)
As you can hopefully tell by my poems, I like real poetry, anything that feels real to me.
Whether that means imagery with all the dust and coffee-mug rings (not everything pristine and pretty), just a sense of verisimilitude, or something very honest - I just want it to feel "real". I also enjoy creative, stylized phrasing and such. There are plenty of sites that will list the "Great Poets", but I can get that from a literature text-book. I've read very little poetry, altough I've been writing it by the metric ton lately. Can anyone suggest poets I might enjoy?
Thanks :)
Whether that means imagery with all the dust and coffee-mug rings (not everything pristine and pretty), just a sense of verisimilitude, or something very honest - I just want it to feel "real". I also enjoy creative, stylized phrasing and such. There are plenty of sites that will list the "Great Poets", but I can get that from a literature text-book. I've read very little poetry, altough I've been writing it by the metric ton lately. Can anyone suggest poets I might enjoy?
Thanks :)
posted by TwistedNoggin at 3:31 PM
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There are several - Pablo Neruda, e e cummings, etc.
You have a nice blog here and a good 'feel' to your poems. Thanks for dropping by and commenting on mine.
Personally, I have always enjoyed the poetry of Bill Waterson.
"verisimilitude" . . . you must be a poet! A good anthology is "Immortal Poems of the English Language," edited by Oscar Williams.
I love Robert Hunter myself. Check out, box of rain.
Noggin, the poet you need right now is Raymond Carver. Trust me.
When you have digested Carver, it will be time for Li Young-Lee.
When you have digested Young-Lee, it will be time for Sharon Olds.
Take them in this order.
And then you will be a woman ready to love again.
And then possibly it will be time for Pablo Neruda.
Well Im not such good reader of poets...But I read Robert Frost and it really touhced me...Maybe to me his style is so simple but remarkable
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