Book Logging (Poetry)
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the_rckPoetry:
Angelou, Maya. A Brave and Startling Truth - Very short book of poetry. I shall have to try more Angelou.
Aridjis, Homero. Tiempo de angeles | A Time of Angels (translated by George McWhirter) - Short book of poetry. Each poem is both in Spanish and translated into English on the same page. My Spanish is rusty enough that I can’t judge the quality of the translation.
Armantrout, Rae. Versed - Short book of poetry. A lot about being in the hospital and having cancer that was really not what I wanted right after getting out of the hospital myself.
Bly, Robert. Meditations on the Insatiable Soul - Short book of poetry. There’s a good bit about dealing with aging parents and with conflicted feelings about past fights. There was something in there that made me cranky, and I can’t put my finger on it.
Brock, Geoffrey. Weighing Light - Short book of poetry. I found these kind of tedious.
Chang, Jennifer. Some Say the Lark - Short book of poetry. I waited to long to comment on this one and no longer actually remember themes from it. I know I didn’t hate it, but beyond that… Um.
Hirsch, Edward. On Love: Poems - I almost didn't finish this even though it's less than 100 pages long. I found the poems very off-putting. Self-absorbed might be the right description. I didn't want to know that much about the poet’s sex life.
Kinnell, Galway. The Past - short book of poetry. There’s a lot of focus in these on getting older and seeing other people and things pass.
Kumin, Maxine. Jack and Other New Poems - Short book of poetry. Rather a lot of stuff about animals and their deaths. Some human deaths, too.
Moon, Kamilah Aisha. Starshine & Clay - Short book of poetry. The first part of the book is poems dedicated to various black people murdered by police. Most of the other poems have a sense of grief and anger and vulnerability that’s painful to read and must have been painful to live.
Teasdale, Sara. Rivers to the Sea - Book of poetry via Project Gutenberg. Some of this was quite good, and some of it was… kind of terrible in a twee way. I think that Teasdale did better when not talking directly about what she was talking about (if that makes sense?). Having layers made her language more interesting and complicated.
Walcott, Derek. The Arkansas Testament - Another short book of poetry. This one is heavy on sense of place and on melancholy reflections on other people’s lives, more poet as observer than as subject.
Angelou, Maya. A Brave and Startling Truth - Very short book of poetry. I shall have to try more Angelou.
Aridjis, Homero. Tiempo de angeles | A Time of Angels (translated by George McWhirter) - Short book of poetry. Each poem is both in Spanish and translated into English on the same page. My Spanish is rusty enough that I can’t judge the quality of the translation.
Armantrout, Rae. Versed - Short book of poetry. A lot about being in the hospital and having cancer that was really not what I wanted right after getting out of the hospital myself.
Bly, Robert. Meditations on the Insatiable Soul - Short book of poetry. There’s a good bit about dealing with aging parents and with conflicted feelings about past fights. There was something in there that made me cranky, and I can’t put my finger on it.
Brock, Geoffrey. Weighing Light - Short book of poetry. I found these kind of tedious.
Chang, Jennifer. Some Say the Lark - Short book of poetry. I waited to long to comment on this one and no longer actually remember themes from it. I know I didn’t hate it, but beyond that… Um.
Hirsch, Edward. On Love: Poems - I almost didn't finish this even though it's less than 100 pages long. I found the poems very off-putting. Self-absorbed might be the right description. I didn't want to know that much about the poet’s sex life.
Kinnell, Galway. The Past - short book of poetry. There’s a lot of focus in these on getting older and seeing other people and things pass.
Kumin, Maxine. Jack and Other New Poems - Short book of poetry. Rather a lot of stuff about animals and their deaths. Some human deaths, too.
Moon, Kamilah Aisha. Starshine & Clay - Short book of poetry. The first part of the book is poems dedicated to various black people murdered by police. Most of the other poems have a sense of grief and anger and vulnerability that’s painful to read and must have been painful to live.
Teasdale, Sara. Rivers to the Sea - Book of poetry via Project Gutenberg. Some of this was quite good, and some of it was… kind of terrible in a twee way. I think that Teasdale did better when not talking directly about what she was talking about (if that makes sense?). Having layers made her language more interesting and complicated.
Walcott, Derek. The Arkansas Testament - Another short book of poetry. This one is heavy on sense of place and on melancholy reflections on other people’s lives, more poet as observer than as subject.
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Date: 2018-04-27 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-28 10:40 pm (UTC)I like Edna St Vincent Millay and Rudyard Kipling and The Spoon River Anthology and WB Yeats and Langston Hughes. Among others.
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Date: 2018-04-30 03:49 pm (UTC)WestwoodMoore), stuff that really worked for me (other Eliot, Plath, Auden, Baudelaire). I'm kind of specific too -- I really like confessional poetry and free verse. I've found a lot of late 20th early 21st century authors I really love -- Marilyn Hacker, Rita Dove, Kim Addonizio, Lucille Clifton, Naomi Shihab-Nye, Margaret Atwood (even though I don't really gel with her novels). But I also love some older stuff -- Sylvia Plath probably got me into poetry, there's something about her use of language that really got its hooks on me. WB Yeats is great, too. I've read awesome stuff by Millay and I love a lot of Auden and Eliot. I need to read more Langston Hughes. What do you like about those three (Yeats, Millay, Hughes), if you don't mind sharing?