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John Donne - The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons and The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens
I actually don't read much poetry, but this thread/shelf might inspire me to! I'll have to keep checking in here.
The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. GriffinThomas Hardy: The Complete Poems
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman ("And malt does more than Milton can/To justify God's ways to man" is one of my all-time favorite quotes)
Gasoline by Gregory Corso
A Coney Island of the Mind by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Love is a Dog from Hell by Charles Bukowski
I have lots of Ginsberg sitting on my shelf, beckoning me. But I haven't read it yet, so can't really nominate it. I have seen the film 'Howl' and loved it a lot though, if that counts!
The Troublesome Amputee, John Edward LawsonLiquid Like This, Leslie Anne McIlroy
Love Poem to Androgyny, Stacey Waite
Midnight Muse in a Convenience Store, Dan McTaggart
Any and all Charles Bukowski,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
The Divine Comedy, DanteThe Complete Poems, by Emily Bronte - or Charlotte.
Norman MacCaig
Collected Poems by Ted Hughes
Good work! Hey does anyone recommend anything in particular by Bukowski? I have a bunch of his stuff waiting to be read, but not much idea where to start.
Ruby wrote: "Good work! Hey does anyone recommend anything in particular by Bukowski? I have a bunch of his stuff waiting to be read, but not much idea where to start."Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame is a rather decent collection. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense is another. :)
Coldnostalgia wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Good work! Hey does anyone recommend anything in particular by Bukowski? I have a bunch of his stuff waiting to be read, but not much idea where to start."Burning in Water, Drowning ..."
Thanks for that. I think I just have prose at the moment, so I'll have to add one of those to my next book order.... :)
Ruby wrote: "Coldnostalgia wrote: "Ruby wrote: "Good work! Hey does anyone recommend anything in particular by Bukowski? I have a bunch of his stuff waiting to be read, but not much idea where to start."Cool. I think you'll really like it:)
Coldnostalgia wrote: "The Divine Comedy, DanteThe Complete Poems, by Emily Bronte - or Charlotte.
Norman MacCaig
Collected Poems by Ted Hughes" You can't go wrong with The Divine Comedy. I just read The Inferno again for about the 5th time. An amazing work, still.
Peter wrote: "My latest interest in poetry was Mark Strand. I really liked his Selected poems."Book link: Selected Poems
I don't know if this should belong on the children's shelf or not but I love A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Also, I do not know if anyone else is familiar with James Whitcomb Riley but I really enjoy his poetry. He does not seem to be well known outside the midwest and is best known in Indiana,I think. I also really enjoy Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson though I have heard others say her poetry is depressing.
Heather wrote: "I don't know if this should belong on the children's shelf or not but I love A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. Also, I do not know if anyone else is familiar with James Whitcomb..."Book title links:
A Child's Garden of Verses
Heather - Are there any books in particular you want to nominate for the shelf by those other writers?
I have a couple of favorites from Ireland :Station Island and the works of W.B. YeatsSome older poets from the nineteenth century - mainly the symbolists:Les Fleurs du Mal( the translation from the French by E.S. Millay is considered the best although nearly impossible to come by. All the works of Arthur Rimbaudand for those interested in the book that inspired Andre Breton and the surrealist movement Maldoror & the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautreamont
I VERY nearly bought the Penguin edition of Leonard Cohen's Book of Longing today. I'm just so broke..... but I really, really want it. Does anyone recommend it? Maybe if it's terrible I won't feel so bad for leaving it in the shop.....?
Love Poems to God: Rilke's Book of HoursWhere the Sidewalk Ends
A Light in the Attic
The Conference of the Birds
The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
JJ wrote: "The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, edited by Alan Kaufman and S.A. GriffinThomas Hardy: The Complete Poems
A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman ("And malt does more than Milton can/To justify God'..."
It was A Shropshire Lad that turned me onto poetry back in tenth grade! So I second your nomination. Btw I’m recording that volume for Librivox, the volunteer project to produce audio-recordings of all literature in the public domain (as Project Gutenberg seeks to do for print). My recordings of “Bredon Hill” and “To An Athlete Dying Young” are on this page if you’re interested ...
http://jstevensonstories.blogspot.com... ). I will say, however, that the poems do get a bit cloying if you read the entire collection in a sitting. But individually: superb!
Petra wrote: "I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems by Ogden NashThe Collected Poems by A.E. Housman"
Hi Petra. Regarding your nomination of Housman, please see my reply to J.J., above. So if anyone's counting, there are major up's for Housman!
I guess I'm the first to say Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman. It's best read aloud -- like all poetry I suppose -- and a true experience.
My favorite poet of all time is the oft-overlooked Andrew Marvell. The Poems of Andrew Marvell has so much more to offer than "To His Coy Mistress" and "The Garden" (though the latter is my favorite by far).For anyone who's never heard of him, Marvell wrote an ecclectic combination of political, romantic (though the actuall 'romantic' era was still a ways in his future), traveller's commentaries, and a few more... Suggestive poems. I think his diversity as a poet makes him an ideal canditate for the chaos bookshelves.
Collected Poems of Philip Larkin - he should have been the Poet Laureate, but turned it down when it was offered. I just love them!Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats for anyone who loves cats (or the musical "Cats" for that matter!)
Shakespeare's Sonnets if no-one's suggested it yet - I know it's hackneyed, but that doesn't stop many of they being lovely.
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Books mentioned in this topic
The Complete Poems (other topics)Judith Wright: Collected Poems 1942-1985 (other topics)
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (other topics)
John Donne - The Major Works: Including Songs and Sonnets and Sermons (other topics)
The Collected Poems (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Sylvia Plath (other topics)Pablo Neruda (other topics)
Charles Bukowski (other topics)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (other topics)
Norman MacCaig (other topics)
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Post your very favourite books of poetry here to go onto the bookshelf
I nominate:
The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton
Judith Wright: Collected Poems 1942-1985 and
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
And that's about all the poetry I know!