Subject: Re: What's everyone been reading?
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliaann@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue May 09 2000 - 11:36:22 GMT
Good morning, all,
[In the interests of only posting properly edited messages, this reply
revisits several individual posts, for the benefit of one who shall remain
nameless.]
Now, first Matt K wrote:
>Cecilia is reading _Ulysses_ (secretly).
Ha. In all of my spare time. No, all that I've had time to do with poor
Leopold lately is look at him, perhaps handle him a little bit, rub his
cover. But to give him the sort of attention that he deserves? No, there's
a Russian and a Frenchman taking my attention right now. I find that it
doesn't fit the light interim reading category that I use for filler.
Scout (is that your real name?) wrote:
>Anyone got any good poetry recommendations?
You mean besides our own Bananafish poets? Certainly. I've been interested
in some of our contemporary poets lately, the folks who are only
anthologized in "Best American Poetry of 199x" so far, but you might want to
try out one or two of the following.
- Mark Strand (I just met him-- he was adorable, I acted the tongue-tied
fool.)
- Sharon Olds
- Mary Oliver
- Adrienne Rich
- Richard Wilbur
Recently dead:
- Cynthia MacDonald
- Stevie Smith
- William Carlos Williams
- Dylan Thomas
- T.S. Eliot
And oh, there's probably a thousand more, but I shall leave it at that for
now.
I know that I've mentioned this before, but I make a habit of putting some
of my favorite poets up on my website, which contains this poetry archive
and Rilke's letters. (A labor of love.) I think I have an example of
everyone that I've mentioned above except for Mary Oliver. I think that you
may find one or two other names that you may recognize there, too.
The location is:
http://www.geocities.com/c_baader/
And you can link to both the archive and the Rilke letters from the main
page. It doesn't exactly have a lot of bells and whistles, as I've
concentrated mostly on content, but there it is. Enjoy.
And finally, Elizabeth wrote:
>"The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
I loved this book. How are you liking it so far, Elizabeth? The thing that
struck me about the whole thing is that I felt like I was reading one long
prose-poem. The lyricism of Roy's language is lovely. And I'll never
forget the "orangedrink lemondrink" man.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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