Re: List of books (poetry)

citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Sun, 12 Dec 1999 20:57:17 -0800

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From: William Hochman <wh14@is9.nyu.edu>:


>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
>

will, the above paragraph is wonderful.

>
>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

And  thanks for the lead to Lynn Lifshin.

--Bruce