/lit/ - Literature

>>21231585
Geoffrey Hill scores 2 bonus points. Then you can turn to his inspiration too, Hopkins.

>>21231585
>no gays
well you pretty much ruled them all of the greats out there huh
>no women
ok you're a newfag lmao
>bonus points for modern, bonus points for christian
brother what do you think has been happening in poetry in the last 200 years???
I guess you might might like Ted Hughes, try Tales From Ovid if you like mythology, and Birthday Letters if you want to be depressed

>>21231667
cringe

>>21231686
great talk, excited for your career to take off

Etel Adnan
Surge (Nightboat Books)
Time, tr. Sarah Riggs (Nightboat Books)
Hala Alyan
Hijra (Southern Illinois University Press)
The Twenty-Ninth Year (Mariner Books)
Atrium (Three Rooms Press)
Patience Agbabi
R.A.W. (Gecko Press)
Transformatrix (Canongate Books)
Bloodshot Monochrome (Canongate)
Telling Tales (Canongate)
Liz Ahl
Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books)
Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press)
Luck (Pecan Grove Press)
Hala Alyan
The Twenty Ninth Year (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Mariner)
Anastacia-Renée Tolbert
(v.) (Gramma)
Joan Annsfire
Distant Music (Headmistress Press)
Colette Arrand
Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon (Opo Books and Objects)
Fatimah Asghar
If They Come for Us (Penguin Random House)
Amber Atiya
the fierce bums of doo-wop (Argos Books)
Lisa Baird
Winter’s Gold Girls (Dagger Editions)
Adèle Barclay
Renaissance Normcore (Nightwood Editions)
Samiya Bashir
Field Theories (Nightboat)
Gospel (RedBone)
Where the Apple Falls (RedBone)
Robin Becker
Personal Effects (Alice James Books)
Backtalk (Alice James Books)
Giacometti’s Dog (University of Pittsburgh Press)
All-American Girl (University of Pittsburgh Press)
The Horse Fair (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Domain of Perfect Affection (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Tiger Heron (University of Pittsburgh Press)
The Black Bear Inside Me (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Venetian Blue (Frick Art Museum)
Roxanna Bennett
unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press)
Rosebud Ben-Oni
turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books Publishing)
Carolyn Bergvall
Alisoun Sings (Nightboat Books)
Cassandra Blanchard
Fresh Pack of Smokes (Nightwood Editions)
Maureen Bocka
First Name Barbie Last Name Doll (Headmistress Press)
Carolyn Boll
Social Dance (Headmistress Press)
Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Arrival (Triquarterly)
Raw Air (Fly By Night Press)
Night When Moon Follows (Long Shot Productions)
Convincing the Body (Vintage Entity Press)
Elizabeth Bradfield
Interpretive Work (Arktoi Books)
Once Removed (Persea Books)
Approaching Ice (Persea)
Dionne Brand
Fore Day Morning (Khoisan Artists)
Earth Magic (Kids Can Press)
Primitive Offensive (Williams-Wallace International Inc.)
Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia (Williams-Wallace)
Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (Williams-Wallace)
No Language is Neutral (Coach House Press)
Land to Light On (McClelland & Stewart)
thirsty (McClelland & Stewart)
Inventory (McClelland & Stewart)
Ossuaries (McClelland & Stewart)
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos (Duke University Press)
Farrell Greenwald Brennan
Diatribe from the Library (Headmistress Press)

Black Holes, Black Stockings, with Jane Miller (Wesleyan University Press)
Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon Press)
Perpetua (Copper Canyon Press)
Sappho’s Gymnasium, with T. Begley (Copper Canyon Press)
Rave: Poems, 1975–1999 (Copper Canyon Press)
Ariana Brown
Sana Sana (Game Over Books)
Beverly Burch
Latter Days of Eve: Poems (BkMk Press)
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Rocket Fantastic (Persea Books)
Apocalyptic Swing (Persea)
The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart (Persea)
Rocío Carlos
(the other house) (The Accomplices)
Audrey Carroll
Queen of Pentacles (Choose the Sword Press)
Anne Carson
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Alfred A. Knopf)
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (Knopf)
Glass, Irony, and God (New Directions)
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Knopf)
Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera (Knopf)
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (New York Review Books)
An Oresteia (Faber & Faber)
Nox (New Directions)
Red Doc> (Knopf)
Float (Knopf)
Ana Castillo
Otro Canto (Alternativa Publications)
The Invitation
Women Are Not Roses (Arte Público Press)
My Father was a Toltec and selected poems, 1973–1988 (Norton)
I Ask the Impossible (Anchor Books)
Yoseli Castillo Fuertes
De eso sí se habla / Of That, I Speak
Sarah Caulfield
Spine (Headmistress Press)
Dorothy Chan
Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions)
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press)
Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review)
Chinese Girl Strikes Back (Spork Press)
Stephanie Chan
Roadkill for Beginners (Math Paper Press)
Kristin Chang
Past Lives, Future Bodies (Black Lawrence Press)
Staceyann Chin
Wildcat Woman
Crossfire: A Litany for Survival (Haymarket Books)
Franny Choi
Floating, Brilliant, Gone (Write Bloody Publishing)
Soft Science (Alice James Books)
Death by Sex Machine (Sibling Rivalry Press)
Cara Cilento
Snapshots: Say Cheese! The World Is Watching
Barbara Clark
The Movie At The Back Of My Mind (Viaduct Publishing)
Cheryl Clarke
Narratives (Kitchen Table, Women of Color Press)
By My Precise Haircut (The Word Works Press)
Living as a Lesbian (Sapphic Classics)
Humid Pitch (Firebrand)
Experimental Love (Firebrand)
Days of Good Looks: Prose and Poetry, 1980–2005 (Carroll & Graf Publishing)
Kai Coggin
Incandescent (Sibling Rivalry)
Andrea Cohen
Nightshade (Four Way Books)
Elizabeth Colen
What Weaponry (Black Lawrence Press)
Money for Sunsets (Steel Toe Books)
Waiting Up for the End of the World (Jaded Ibis Press)
The Green Condition (Ricochet Editions)
Flower Conroy
The Awful Suicidal Swans (Headmistress Press)
Snake Breaking Medusa Disorder (NFSPS Press)
Dani Couture
Good Meat (Pedlar Press)
Sweet (Pedlar)
YAW (Mansfield)
Cristie Cyane
demain j’y vais (Éditions Geneviève Pastre)
Elayna Mae Darcy
Unraveling Light (Magic Key Media)
marissa dahlson
Sunshine Girl: a collection of memories (CreateSpace)

>>21231722
>>21231729
Read these and then maybe you can yourself well-read. >>21231585

>>21231722
>>21231729
all from
https://samanthapious.com/2019/03/15/lesbian-bi-women-poets/
based

>>21231731
The best poets around. OP is a retarded buffoon if he doesn't read from this list.

>>21231667
So what? You expected to come in here and drop trite names everyone knows? Away with you! I'm looking for the diamonds off the beaten path, not the slop modern academia and propogandic leftist journals hurl in the troughs of the masses.

>>21231722
>>21231729
Thanks for your pretension. Now get lost, pleb.

>>21231731
>>21231742
>>21231742
trash and easily found trash at that. easily offended brainlets.

>>21231799
You're not interested in reading at all. Now fuck off back to Twitter.

>>21231803
Make assumptions all you please, you're just another snowflake seething I don't want to read your garbage.

>>21231635
Thanks, anon.

>>21231799
>>21231802
>filtered and NGMI
fucking tiktok zoomer retards, afraid of real literature

>>21231826
Why are you so pitiful desperate to be accepted? I don't care if you read all the perverse women writers in the world, but stop trying to cram them down my throat. I'll read what I want. You want your perversions and modern ""values"" to be accepted by everyone? Well guess what, they aren't. Get over it.

>>21231831
not perversions, these poets represent the quintessence of the grecian-bisexual worldview and a twitterchud like you wouldn't get it. you will never be well read. the words of a book die as you read them because your ADHD brain literally cannot

>>21231841
blah blah blah blah seethe more degenerate

>>21231842
cope and seethe chudtard

>>21231667
Very heckin cringearino famalam

>>21231585
ANIMA MEA

Estava a Morte ali, em pé, diante,
Sim, diante de mim, como serpente,
Que dormisse na estrada e de repente
Se erguesse sob os pés do caminhante.

Era de vêr a funebre bacchante!
Que torvo olhar! que gesto de demente!
E eu disse-lhe: «Que buscas, impudente,
Loba faminta, pelo mundo errante?»

— Não temas, respondeu (e uma ironia
Sinistramente estranha, atroz e calma,
Lhe torceu cruelmente a bôca fria).

Eu não busco o teu corpo... Era um tropheu
Glorioso demais... Busco a tua alma —
Respondi-lhe: «A minha alma já morreu!»

>>21231585
>best poets
Geoffrey Hill

>>21231585
If you haven't read Keats yet you're missing out on some of the best poetry in the English language.

modern and underrated?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5N_Gqc2ofg&t=24s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AEVa1vHLTk

>>21232688
I love Keats - taken too soon. I read a lot of poetry. I just wanted to get a thread going for straight male poets who are preferably Christian and modern, but even one's who aren't Christian or modern, like Keats, are welcome.

>>21231585
Out in the mindless void the daemon bore me,
Past the bright clusters of dimensioned space,
Till neither time nor matter stretched before me,
But only Chaos, without form or place.
Here the vast Lord of All in darkness muttered
Things he had dreamed but could not understand,
While near him shapeless bat-things flopped and fluttered
In idiot vortices that ray-streams fanned.

They danced insanely to the high, thin whining
Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw,
Whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining
Gives each frail cosmos its eternal law.
“I am His Messenger,” the daemon said,
As in contempt he struck his Master’s head.

>>21233247
B+ writing, D for substance

I met an aged, aged man
Upon the lonely moor:
I knew I was a gentleman,
And he was but a boor.
So I stopped and roughly questioned him,
"Come, tell me how you live!"
But his words impressed my ear no more
Than if it were a sieve.

He said, "I look for soap-bubbles,
That lie among the wheat,
And bake them into mutton-pies,
And sell them in the street.
I sell them unto men," he said,
"Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread –
A trifle, if you please."

But I was thinking of a way
To multiply by ten,
And always, in the answer, get
The question back again.
I did not hear a word he said,
But kicked that old man calm,
And said, "Come, tell me how you live!"
And pinched him in the arm.

His accents mild took up the tale:
He said, "I go my ways,
And when I find a mountain-rill,
I set it in a blaze.
And thence they make a stuff they call
Rowland's Macassar Oil;
But fourpence-halfpenny is all
They give me for my toil."

But I was thinking of a plan
To paint one's gaiters green,
So much the color of the grass
That they could ne'er be seen.
I gave his ear a sudden box,
And questioned him again,
And tweaked his grey and reverend locks,
And put him into pain.

He said, "I hunt for haddock's eyes
Among the heather bright,
And work them into waistcoat-buttons
In the silent night.
And these I do not sell for gold,
Or coin or silver-mine,
But for a copper-halfpenny,
And that will purchase nine.

"I sometimes dig for buttered rolls,
Or set limed twigs for crabs;
I sometimes search the flowery knolls
For wheels of hansom cabs.
And that's the way" (he gave a wink)
"I get my living here,
And very gladly will I drink
Your Honour's health in beer."

I heard him then, for I had just
Completed my design
To keep the Menai bridge from rust
By boiling it in wine.
I duly thanked him, ere I went,
For all his stories queer,
But chiefly for his kind intent
To drink my health in beer.

And now if e'er by chance I put
My fingers into glue,
Or madly squeeze a right-hand foot
Into a left-hand shoe;
Or if a statement I aver
Of which I am not sure,
I think of that strange wanderer
Upon the lonely moor.

Wordsworth BTFO

>>21231585

I do not have a running list of men or any subcategory of that, but recent (last year or two) books of poetry that I like are

Tom Will - You, The Viewer At Home, Moon
Konstantin Kanelleas - Hyponeirisms
Boris Dralyuk - My Hollywood
I do not have any of her books but Stacy Knall I am partial to whenever I read her in various magazines
Jeremy Reed- I never said I was nice


Maybe too obvious to mention but have you tried any of Houellebecq's poetry?

>>21231729
>>21231722
Nice list! I will have to check some out. Ive read a few of these but hardly all. Nox sticks out as a favorite, althougth I havent picked it up in years.

>>21231585
heinrich heine

>>21231585
>yeats
>christian
lmao

>>21231585
I hate reactionary newshitters so god damn much

>>21233364
Didn't say he was, but actually, after Yeats left the occult, he went into the Christian church, calling it, "the only definite religion." However, if I had to give my opinion, based off of poetry Yeats wrote late in his life, I would say he became part of the religious institution of Christianity, but not an actual Christian - though one can't be certain about another's relationship with God.

>>21233362
Heine is awesome! His work is so powerful, and he had such frightening foresight!

>>21233335
Thank you! No, I'm aware of Houellebecq, but I've never gotten around to him. Should I make it a priority?

>>21233368
I'm supposing you mean me, but I'm not a reactionary. I'm just a normal Christian guy, in the mood to find good poetry I don't know by other men, and if they share my beliefs as well it just makes it possible for me to get that much more enjoyment out of it, rather than liking a poet, before encountering something blasphemous or something sinful, by our standards, and having to put their work aside.

>>21233309
This was pleasant, but I dislike his attitude, and generally I love Lewis Carroll, so it was a little shock.

This nigga

>>21233535

His poetry seems like the sort you would like if you like his novels, and not like if you do not like his novels.

You can read a few here: https://www.actualidadliteratura.com/en/michel-houellebecq-poemas/

Personally I find him overall to get a bit too morose and depressive which gets a bit predictable, which I do not really like. At least in his novels he has more room to surprise you. In his poetry not so much.

While I am thinking of writers mostly known for their fiction and not their poetry, Borges writes masterful sonnets, very worth getting into those.

>>21232830
A Mormon poet? I'm not sure if I found information on the right man. Very fun poetry, really. He has good command of language, even if it's a bit simple in style. I enjoyed it.

>>21233572
It's a parody of Resolution and Independence.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45545/resolution-and-independence

>>21233617

There must be some kind of Mormon-formalism resurgence as of late

Here is a recent poem from a poet that teaches at BYU that I like

>>21233585
I've enjoyed Borges on occasion, I really like his poem, "To The One Who Is Reading Me," - so cool and funny. In some ways, a more modern and direct Ozymandias.

Hmmm, I don't think I'll like Houellebecq. The first poem in that link is very un-Christian. He may have some belief in God, but no Christian hates Christ or wallows in self-loathing existential angst. Those are people who are culturally Christian, typically, but have no real trust or faith in the love of God and the goodness of Jesus Christ. I didn't detest the rhythm of it all. He had some powerful imagery, but OH WHAT MISERY! Yet, I appreciate the recommendation nonetheless.

>>21233619
Holy smokes! It is so much better! The command of language is far more adept. That's the problem with parodies, an originator draws out of our artistic essences, but the parodist is a lot like those pop culture versions of the Mona Lisa or other famous works you see from time to time, they can be fun, but there's a certain something which is always missing - a deeper mystery they are devoid of. That is not the best analogy, I know, but I'm sure you can understand well enough.

>>21233659
Wow, I like it. It's a bit disenchanted for my tastes. I get tired of the dreary miseries of modern thinkers, but even so, it was well crafted and the imagery was so vivid. I think it was one of the stronger depictions of love and romance grown cold I've seen from a modern poet, and with less words. Sad, but beautiful still.

>>21233581
With what should I begin? Any favorites of yours?

>>21233672
I get it. I would say maybe try out the first two books I recommend, Tom Will and Konstantin Kanellas. The others not so much.

Konstantin is Greek and orthodox, I think and Tom I am not sure but looks to be not un-Christian. Im thinking of this one in particular to base that on. I have to run but hope you like the recomendations man.

>>21233752
I'm sure I'll enjoy them, thank you. That's a very interesting poem. The Biblical references are clear, but, I'll be honest, I'm uncertain I comprehend his meaning. I like that its fashioned almost parabolically as much as poetically.