Do you poet? Doesn't everyone?

[lagilman]

Gakked (is that even a word? Why is it a word?) from rusalka.

"What poets do you have on your shelves? For the purposes of this list, they should be there by your choice (as opposed to being texts for courses, etc) and be either the collected or selected works of one single poet (anthologies and collections do not count, nor do Selections from Works which include, but do not consist exclusively of, poetry)."

Oy.

Chaucer (does TOO count!)
Shakespeare (various, and yeah I bought some for a course but I keep 'em for pleasure)
Robert Frost
Denise Levertov
Guy Gavriel Kay
John Berryman
Ogden Nash
John Ciardi
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Lowell
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dylan Thomas

I'd probably have more, but I also have so many collections and textbooks there never seemed to be a point...

Hrm. Ecclectic tastes? Moi?

Comments

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

I didn't know Kay had ever put out a poetry book. I didn't think he was capable of writing anything under 100,000 words, frankly. :-)

[lagilman]

I thought that would get your attention...

Yeah, a book of poetry, out this year from Penguin UK. Good stuff, and a few that will really resonate with any writer.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

Is it out in stores already? What's it called?

[lagilman]

Beyond this Dark House

http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143013785/qid=1066418053/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_3_2/701-0410945-2515517

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

Don't mention poetry around me until after Monday night. The only reason I'm at work today, despite lingering coughing fits, is because the damn poetry book has to be ready in time for Monday night's program and I already lost two workdays to this cold.

Poetry. Bleah.