Re: List of books (poetry)
William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 12:40:47 -0500 (EST)
The seoncd Harry Potter book (_Chamber_) is not so enjoyable as the first
and I have to say that having to read the "americanized" versions of them
makes me a bit angry altogether...so I will stay away from the prose side
of this discussion (while appreciating the insertion of plays as lit that
too easily gets overlooked in such lists and therefore I must say here and
now, Beckett and maybe Tom Stopard tomorrow.
Here's my list of poets. Since this is a list for a man who was a prose
writer but who valued poetry in prose and who isn't known to have written
poetry, it makes sense that he, like us, may enjoy more than the
occasional turn of a line...with section man love and squalor, I've never
listed poets like this before but when I let the century slip away here
are the poets I will still return to...will
In no particular order since wrangling ten together was no easy task:
RM Rilke, Pablo Neruda, Wallace Stevens, Richard Hugo,Eugenio Montale,
Alan Ginsberg, Robert Creely, Lynn Lifshin, Philip Levine, Elizabeth
Bishop