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12664173 No.12664173 [Reply] [Original]

reminder that prose is for people scared of poetry and older poetry is for people scared of everything

>> No.12664272

Remember that one sentence generalization posts like these are what is causing /lit/ to go the way of shitsville.

>> No.12664284

>>12664272
read more poetry u coward

>> No.12664344

>>12664284
Stevens' Esthetique Du Mal is my favorite poem

>> No.12664360

>>12664344
I don't really care for Steven's but I get the appeal. Do you like Ashbury too? Because I find his work more compelling, although similarly difficult.

>> No.12664375

>>12664272
Remember that one sentence generalization posts like these are what is causing /lit/ to go the way of shitsville.

>> No.12664387

>>12664173
Hilda's my waifu.

>> No.12664399

>>12664360
Ashberry's work is just a mixture of techniques from Stevens and Frank O Hara's. He also became shit after Convex Mirror.

>> No.12664425

>>12664399
honestly i think litany is more interesting in either poet's work

reading for Litany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpKbzwfe4Zo

>> No.12664448

>>12664399
>shit after Self Portrait
80's-2000 was his peak era

>> No.12664474

>>12664425
But its just rehashing techniques from convex ad naseum with less concision and more rambling.

>> No.12664480

>>12664448
See
>>12664474