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Gimme some good poetry books /lit/

>> No.14926295

Read Paterson by William Carlos Williams.

>> No.14926349

>>14926288
the essential poetry books nobody gives one shit about because they're illiterate fuck face retards who haven't read any poetry besides Homer, Shakespeare, and Dante:
>Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake
>Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
>Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
>Dramatic Lyrics by Robert Browning
>Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
>Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
>Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
>Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rossetti
>The House of Life by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
>Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
>The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
>Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot
>Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
>Ariel by Sylvia Plath
>Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney
>Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol by Okot p'Bitek
>Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
>Omeros by Derek Walcott
>The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt

>> No.14926455

Emily Dickinson
Wallace Stevens
Elizabeth Bishop
John Ashbery
Monica Youn

>> No.14926459

>>14926288
If you want a good introductory anthology, then Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom.

>> No.14926547

>>14926459
anthologies are haram and you should feel bad for recommending them

>> No.14926560

>>14926547
I think they're a good way to get into poetry, to have some help in understanding it and to be introduced to many different poets.

>> No.14926564

Cat Town by Sakutaro Hagiwara

>> No.14927259

>>14926288
A season in hell - rimbaud
Crow - ted Hughes
Stone - osip mandelstam
5 degrees - nicholas christopher
Tender buttons - Gertrude Stein
Tulips and chimneys - ee cummings

>> No.14927270

>>14926459
Can't find it on b-ok

>> No.14927296

please recommend me poetry (and anything really) that resembles the following themes:
love
eros/erotic
has-that-magic-realism/surrealist-vibe-to-it
~pretti/aesthetic~

i will love you 4ever and tri my best to (not) shitpost on /lit/ for the rest of my duration here

>>14926288
not strictly poetry, but molly bloom's soliloquy is guud