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What poets should a young poet like myself who's just starting out be reading, /lit/? Here's a couple I'm currently looking into:

Walt Whitman
e.e. cummings
Ezra Pound

>> No.3212116

Nothing worse than English verse!

don't even bother language is dead.

>> No.3212122

>>3212116
Lies, I tell you. Lies.

>> No.3212151

>>3212116
5/10

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>>3212110
I can help with cummings.

>> No.3212216

>>3212198
That's pretty cool.

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3212242

OP those are some pretty mediocre poets

I recommend:
John Keats
William Blake
Emily Dickinson
William Carlos Williams
Gertrude Stein I am not trolling, seriously consider her
Wallace Stevens
W H Auden
Randall Jarrell

and Coleman Barks' translation of Rumi

>> No.3212250

>>3212242

a man who cannot enjoy the cantos of ezra pound has a barbarous mind

>> No.3212266

>>3212250
OP here.
I just checked out the Cantos 1-95 from the library. Haven't read them yet though.

>>3212242
I'm digging Whitman so far. A bit wordy, but it seems like all poets were back then. Thanks for the recommendations.

Just wondering, is that you in the pic?

>> No.3212268

>>3212110
>What poets should a young poet like myself who's just starting out be reading
The ones that share the similar esthetical ideas as yourself.

>> No.3212274

>>3212242

>calls OP's list mediocre
>recommends Coleman Barks translations

Nigga, you just went full peasant.

>> No.3212280

>>3212242
>e.e. cummings
>Ezra Pound
>mediocre

No.

>> No.3212299

>>3212280
>Whitman
>mediocre

>> No.3212356

>>3212266
yes it is me, but don't go posting it anywhere

>> No.3212358

>>3212110
OP: fine choices for starters. I would recommend reading poetry in translation as well - Mandelstam is great, as are Rimbaud, Brecht, the works.

Then, there is a great american tradition that is not read much nowadays, but which seems to promise a solution to the recurring question of form in a shapeless time. I am thinking of George Oppen and Kenneth Rexroth for example.

>> No.3212370

>>3212266
>Just wondering, is that you in the pic?

lel

>> No.3212396

>>3212356
Nah, I wouldn't do that.