Of the poetry books that I have physical copies of (the poets I actually like surpasses this), favorites are: A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud (trans. by Louise Varese, Edgard Varese's wife), Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, Selected Poems from 'Les Fleurs du Mal' by Charles Baudelaire (trans. by Norman Shapiro), The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas, Tulips & Chimneys by e.e. cummings, The Collected Poems of W.H. Auden, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, Poet in New York by Federico Garcia Lorca (I can't remember the translator)... And an anthology of English poetry, which has some great stuff by Shakespeare, Pope, Hopkins, Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake, Dunne, etc. I also have a couple of text books that have some wonderful works by Hart Crane, T.S. Eliot, etc. etc.
I'll go into some other poets I dig and their styles in a later post. I'm lazy at the moment.
I'll go into some other poets I dig and their styles in a later post. I'm lazy at the moment.
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