/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6502838]

Is anyone here obsessed with poetry? I am looking for contemporary poets and poetry that are really stretching the boundaries, so to speak.

I would also love it if someone could link or direct me to a source that breaks down the major types and methods of writing poems according to their chronological development throughout history.

[Anonymous No.6502935]

Have you read Kolsti Nguyen?

[Anonymous No.6503113]

>>6502935
no. also bump

[Anonymous No.6503121]

>>6503113
Read his poems in order. His progression as a writer is interesting. His style gets subtler as his themes get stronger.

[Anonymous No.6503709]

bump

[Anonymous No.6503728]

cannot help just bump


It opens, the gate to the garden
with the docility of a page
that frequent devotion questions
and inside, my gaze
has no need to fix on objects
that already exist, exact, in memory.
I know the customs and souls
and that dialect of allusions
that every human gathering goes weaving.
I've no need to speak
nor claim false privilege;
they know me well who surround me here,
know well my afflictions and weakness.
This is to reach the highest thing,
that Heaven perhaps will grant us:
not admiration or victory
but simply to be accepted
as part of an undeniable Reality,
like stones and trees.

[Anonymous No.6503810]

http://4poet.tumblr.com/

[Anonymous No.6503834]

>used to write poetry as a teenager
>was never very good and haven't written since
>patrician qt asks me to write her a poem
>mfw realizing how hard poetry is as I struggle with parataxic prose
I wish she had just asked for an essay.