Too many to list completely. But here's a few to start with: Tony Hoagland, Marie Howe, Mary Oliver, Stephen Dunn, Jeffrey McDaniel, Sharon Olds, Charles Bukowski, Yusef Komunyakaa, and of course, e.e. cummings.
William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale, Osip Mandelshtam, David Jones, Apollinaire, Octavio Paz, Cesar Vallejo, JH Prynne, HD, Barry MacSweeney, Anna Akhmatova, Jack Spicer, Les Murray, Geoffrey Hill, Cavafy, Dylan Thomas, RS Thomas, WB Yeats, Sappho...
Too many to list completely. But here's a few to start with: Tony Hoagland, Marie Howe, Mary Oliver, Stephen Dunn, Jeffrey McDaniel, Sharon Olds, Charles Bukowski, Yusef Komunyakaa, and of course, e.e. cummings.
ReplyDelete2 poets:
ReplyDelete1) Wilfred Owen
2) Lorna Dee Cervantes
(ps: thanks for the ole shout out)
Bukowski
ReplyDeleteI'm with Pam on E.E. Cummings.
ReplyDeleteI'd also recommend Ted Hughes & Philip Larkin.
cummings is my all-time favorite.
ReplyDeleteBut I would also suggest Christopher Logue, whose re-imagining of "The Iliad" is quite mind-blowing.
Rumi, of course.
Wallace Stevens is incredibly dense, but also incredibly fulfilling.
Robert Pinsky
Richard Wilbur
A few essential favourites -
ReplyDeleteWilliam Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, Rainer Maria Rilke, Eugenio Montale, Osip Mandelshtam, David Jones, Apollinaire, Octavio Paz, Cesar Vallejo, JH Prynne, HD, Barry MacSweeney, Anna Akhmatova, Jack Spicer, Les Murray, Geoffrey Hill, Cavafy, Dylan Thomas, RS Thomas, WB Yeats, Sappho...
OK, I'll shut up now.
Margaret Atwood.
ReplyDeleteMary Oliver.
Whitman, Spenser, Donne (the amazing Donne), Dante and Leopardi. Especially Dante and Leopardi.
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