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Fri Nov-07-03 02:31 PM
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Poll question: Favourite American Poet |
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I know I've missed some, I'm trying for the highlights. Order is alphabetical. see http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:32 PM
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1. Townes Van Zandt for me. > |
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Not so much lyrics as poetry with a musical accompanyment.
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:35 PM
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I finally went with Williams, but Plath was very compelling too.
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:37 PM
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3. Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" may be the great American novel. |
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:38 PM
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4. Marvin Bell or Theodore Roethke. |
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:40 PM
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5. Voted for Whitman, but thought Wallace Stevens could be on the list |
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and Poe. I'm amazed at how many poets I really enjoy and feel warmly about, like virtually everyone on your list. I don't think of myself as a poetry reader, but I guess I'm more of one than I thought. I hope someone votes for e.e. cummings.
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:42 PM
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a violent sexually-charged drug-addict. the epitome of american culture.
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Fri Nov-07-03 03:06 PM
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"Listen to my last words, any where... listen all you powers behind what filth deals consumated in what lavatory... to take what is not yours, to sell the ground from unborn feet - forever..."
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:42 PM
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But I think that Bob Dylan deserves to be on the list as well.
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:43 PM
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This is what my degree is in, so it's hard to pick one.
William Everson Kenneth Patchen Bob Kaufman William Carlos Williams Ted Berrigan Frank O'Hara Anselm Hollo David Henderson Gregory Corso Ezra Pound Ted Joans Amiri Baraka Bob Dylan
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:45 PM
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10. Shel Silverstein? Ogden Nash? |
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:47 PM
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11. The guy who wrote "There once was a man from Nantucket... |
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Edited on Fri Nov-07-03 02:47 PM by Redleg
Ha ha ha. Just kidding. My vote is for Walt Whitman.
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:48 PM
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the dignity and humanity of this frail 98-year-old is humbling, to say the least. I heard him read "God's Grandeur" at a symposium and it actually made me weep. And I'm an atheist!
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:49 PM
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13. Robert Hayden, Frank O'Hara, Whitman, Dickinson |
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are my favorites. There are many other wonderful American poets.
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:52 PM
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and the first person who responds Rod McKuen, well, I don't know what'll happen, but, but, it should be bad...
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:53 PM
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15. I have two copies of "Leaves of Grass" |
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One paperback portable, the other the hardback with the Edward Weston photos. Very very moving stuff.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:49 PM
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25. I've given away more copies than I could count. |
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Fri Nov-07-03 02:55 PM
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Hey, I got a simple mind and I enjoy him.
The Germ A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than a pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:25 PM
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21. Me too. Ogden Nash. In the poll - e. e. cummings. |
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I have a hard time grokking 'hard-core' poetry.
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Fri Nov-07-03 03:00 PM
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There's no lightweights on your list, but Ginsberg's the one for me.
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Fri Nov-07-03 03:02 PM
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there's no comparison. Annabel Lee is one of the coolest poems every, Poe is the man!
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:23 PM
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20. I'd always thought of T. S. Eliot as a British poet |
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but it turns out he was born in the States.
The Wasteland (the only poem I know that needs an owners manual) and The Hollow Men are my two favourites.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:32 PM
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T.S. Eliot, Miles Davis and William Burroughs were all born within a few miles of each other in St. Louis. Wonder what was in the water.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:40 PM
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23. Other: POE. How could you leave POE off the list? |
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If nothing else he deserves a place in history for being the only poet to ever use the word "tintinabulation" in a poem.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:43 PM
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24. No room, known more for prose than poetry |
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the Raven not withstanding.
Plus, I was trying for later poets (Whittman and Frost) notwithstanding.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:52 PM
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A tie between Galway Kinnell and Carolyn Forché.
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Fri Nov-07-03 05:53 PM
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or e.e. cummings. Tough choice
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Fri Nov-07-03 06:00 PM
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28. I pick Frost today... |
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Tomorrow it'll be someone different.
IN A DISUSED GRAVE YARD
The living come with grassy tread To read the gravestones on the hill; The graveyard draws the living still, But never anymore the dead. The verses in it say and say: "The ones who living come today To read the stones and go away Tomorrow dead will come to stay." So sure of death the marbles rhyme, Yet can't help marking all the time How no one dead will seem to come. What is it men are shrinking from? It would be easy to be clever And tell the stones: Men hate to die And have stopped dying now forever. I think they would believe the lie.
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Fri Nov-07-03 06:16 PM
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better known as Bob Dylan...
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