/lit/ - Literature

conrad aiken
rumi

also should be "who are"

Maya Angelou is the greatest poet ever.

>>2414238

And it's favorite not "favourite".

Maybe you should brush up your grammar first, huh?

>>2414239
I don't think Americans should be commenting on anything linguistic...

Mayakowsky

>>2414239

> not being able to grasp the difference between english and american english.

>>2414237
>>2414238
>>2414244

Great, thanks.

Any more?

A few examples would be sweet too.

>>2414246
All my lols on this.

>>2414249

Ikkyū. Zen master, monk, drunk, whoremonger, poet and some other things. Example:

that stone Buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind

char, celan, rilke, mallarme, novalis, campana, valery, bonnefoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEbIuDuW7l8

>>2414276
...blake, bataille ("the archangelic"), blaga, ritsos, heym, khayyam, eluard, jabes

wallace stevens
joe bolton
denis johnson
franz wright
frank stanford
charles baudelaire
arthur rimbaud

2pac & biggie, yo.

leopardi

Taneda Santoka

http://www.beyond-the-pale.co.uk/santoka.htm

Orientals rule the poetry game

so who are the most non pretentious, and 'real' out of these?

i don't want to listen to some privileged bourgeoisie whine on about bs.

Ray Carver
Tess Gallagher

>>2414331
John Cooper Clarke.

>>2414396
And Lemn Sissay.

>>2414396
>>2414399

thanks, broseph.

>>2414331

charles bukowsi
sylvia plath

not much pretense to those two (although plath was a woman and maybe a little dramatic)

i like t.s. eliot also.

Jim Carroll, fucking excellent.

W.B. Yeats
Dylan Thomas

>>2414526

I read factotum and just found it dull. is his other work better?

>>2415356

factotum is the worst of his novels. you chose poorly for your first.

William Carlos Williams, Ernesto Trejo, Federico Garcia Lorca, John Berryman.

>>2415362

lol thnks 4 bein so helpful, fggt

Rimbaud
child poet and lunatic. Stopped writing when he was 20, moved to africa and started in the arms trade and slave trade

>>2415356
>not reading an authors works in chronological order

>>2414396

Seconding John Cooper Clark, adding John Hegley and also Simon Armitage.

Seamus Heaney and Pablo Neruda are the two poets I find most inspirational - they're dedicated craftsmen, and supreme technicians, and their work just hums because they're so prolific they can't help themselves.

>>2415375

you must be new here

bukowski sucks. self indulgent dogshit.

Celan, of course.

>>2415364

Recommending Berryman to a beginner poet is a little bit like recommending that a baby take charge of the firework display. I've no doubt it would be impressive, but eventually fatal.

Berryman is probably the finest poet of the 20th century, imho and btw, but as someone who's startan an a poetan, then I think it would either make you so depressed (because you will never emulate it) that you will throw your fool ass off a bridge. On the other hand, you'll read it, hate it, and then throw yourself off a bridge out of hatred, rage and the fact of bridges.

Berryman is a gateway poet - be careful.

I like Raymond Carver.
Here's one of my faves, paired with one of my favourite photographers.
http://scottbrothertonblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/photographers-poems-todd-hido-raymond-carver/

>>2415375

Yeah, I bet you read Roberto Bolano in chronological order as well. Same with Eliot, I bet.

Fucking twat.

>>2415382
The Michael Hamburger translations are all I know, but they're great. Celan was definitely reaching for something just out of bounds when he wrote.

>>2415383
I'm new b/c I like to read an author's works as he wrote them? try again, fgt

>>2415395

have fun being alone for the rest of your life

>>2415399
wut?

Fernando Pessoa

I never get bored with him because he has 5 different characters including himself.

>>2415409

>five

Fucking step up your game, bitch.

Just google Heteronyms and Pessoa - the bitch had more alternate personalities than Latka Gravas.

>>2414276
>>2414290
/lit/ doesn't deserve you. Get out of here!

>>2415409

He's not a poet though, right?

any moar ya'll fellin?

Carolyn Forche

So viel Plebs hinein

Rainier Rilke
Goethe
Octavio Paz
Vasko Popa
Elizabeth Bishop
Walt Whitman

>>2415379

really? never heard his described as that before, interesting.

Nicanor Parra, Pablo de la Rokha, Girondo, Gorostiza, Huidobro, Villaurrutia, Maples Arce.