Benny Bunter
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One more, this is a good early one I think
Poetry anthology recommendations please
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Be interested in what people make of that one actually. I thought maybe 'Miasma of art' was referring to the Museum of art, or the art establishment and how art and history is presented, I guess, cos it goes on to talking about history with "once this happened" and it feels like he's wandering through a museum - I might be totally wrong about this though.
Then the lines "I am omnipresent to some extent" and "constant ephemerals" seem like keys to unlocking what his work's about.
Any help with these poems is much appreciated
Then the lines "I am omnipresent to some extent" and "constant ephemerals" seem like keys to unlocking what his work's about.
Any help with these poems is much appreciated
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Benny Bunter
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Neither did I. It's in poems for the millennium volume 1. Good one eh?
And oh look, I've just googled and found a pdf of an entire book of his poems
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yep. good. i only have volume 3 for some reason. and that reason is it's the only one available cheap in judd books
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you don't have to sccratch your head over that one
Benny Bunter
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I got a second hand copy of vol 1 for a song off Amazon and I'm keeping an eye out for vol 2. This one's gonna keep me going for a long time though
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good mates with Pierre Reverdy i believe
Benny Bunter
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There's a bit of Picasso material in poems for the millennium too but it doesnt seem very interesting. Some by Kandinsky too, but I haven't read those yet. Seems like they were all having a go at it.
Here's a couple more Klee poems:
Benny Bunter
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Got this yesterday and spent all last night and this morning reading it - blown away.
It's got tons of Pound's own translations (including the mind-blowing Seafarer) and brilliantly pithy comments, plus extracts from his ABC of Reading at the back, a very entertaining and useful syllabus/reading guide by someone called Vincent Miller who I assumed to be an EP alias but turns out to be a real person, and the selection just seems impeccable. The Arthur Golding translations of Ovid are amazing, so vivid and exciting - blood n guts everywhere
It's a ten out of ten anthology.
Benny Bunter
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Bagged a cheap copy of poems for the millenium vol 2, arrived today, flicking through it. What a feast.
Went straight to the Celan poems in there cos I'd seen Prynne was a big fan and and wow.
Went straight to the Celan poems in there cos I'd seen Prynne was a big fan and and wow.
Benny Bunter
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Plus surprised to see Prynne himself included in there! I thought he refused to let his stuff get published in anthologies. It's got that really good one from Wound response, an evening walk.
Corpsey
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The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. Ricks
Fuck knows how it measures up to other anthologies but I dip into it all the time and am always discovering something great.
There's another anthology (Penguin?) which goes through the English poetical canon in chronological order, rather than poet by poet, which is useful for comparing poems from the same year, etc.
Fuck knows how it measures up to other anthologies but I dip into it all the time and am always discovering something great.
There's another anthology (Penguin?) which goes through the English poetical canon in chronological order, rather than poet by poet, which is useful for comparing poems from the same year, etc.
Corpsey
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The Penguin Book of English Verse
This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.
www.penguin.co.uk
Yes it is this one