id also be interested to know if anyone here has made any headway with olson. i'm considering buying maximus when im in the uk but im not sure its worth my while. i don't like any of the people associated with him, not even bunting or zukovsky, both of whom get a lot of love from people whose opinions i respect.
i enjoy david jones very much. i have all his books, which i consider an acheivement in itself. they're not easy to come by.
i've got the whole first section of the anathemata typed out if anyones interested in having a look.
also pounds translations of chinese poets turn out to be far better than i originally thought.
I'm amazed you persist with these boys, they seem to give you high blood pressure.
Craner, your
Cock needs
Ironing. It has
Gone all small
And wrinkly.
Craner, your
Cock needs
Ironing. It has
Gone all small
And wrinkly.
: “Λέγουσιν They say / ἃ θέλουσιν What they like /
λεγέτωσαν Let them say it /
οὐ μέλι μοι I don’t care /
σὺ φίλι με Go on, love me /
συνφέρι σοι It does you good.”
I'm sorry that nobody engaged with your topic Loki, and just used it as a general poetry pastebin. This is exactly my experience with poetry as well. O'Hara has maybe three good poems. Elliot has a handful. Auden has a few. Etc etc. But the corpus?? Are you kidding?? So much filler. I never understand it. Why isn't their production function uniformly brilliant! Poets are a big waste of space. Except for every once in a while, they put out a poem and it justifies their sorry existence. But 99% of the time they are net negatives, life-suckers rather than life-givers. I believe everything I have said here in full and without reserve or qualification.a discussion at work eventually came round to this: is it possible to actually like poetry or do people only like individual poems? i've tried hard and i must have a hundred collections but even the 'big boys' - Hughes, Heaney, Larkin, Dylan Thomas, Baudelaire,Rimbaud, Shakespeare - seem to have an awful lot of filler in amongst all the hits. despite the fact that i've always considered myself as someone who likes poetry i can't really claim to like more than 50 poems...am i the only one or is quality control something that poetry thinks it transcends?