recommendations??? it would be nice if you provide names of books among other things...or if you recommend other good authors even better......
2007-01-27 06:25:06 · 6 answers · asked by feelingtherain 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
There's an anthology collected by Garrison Keilor called "Good Poems," which is a really excellent primer for folks who want to learn more about poetry. Find poets you like from the book and google them.
I'm also a big fan of the Norton Anthologies because they give you background information as well as help understanding the works.
I'm a huge fan of Sharon Olds, T.S. Eliot, ee cummings, and the Shakespeare sonnets.
2007-01-27 07:21:01 · answer #1 · answered by Rosasharn 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I LOVE good poetry: Mary Oliver, Nikki Giovanni, Jane Hirschfield, Jane Kenyon, William Stafford, Sonia Sanchez, Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich, Wallace Stevens, Billy Collins, Robert Penn Warren,Wendell Berry,Marge Piercy, Pattiann Rogers,Rabindranath Tagore (Indian Poet), Pablo Neruda, Rainer Marie Rilke, Hafiz,
Julaladin Rumi, ee cummings, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelou, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Robert Service, William Blake, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anna Ahkmatova, Gwendolyn Brooks,
I probably could go on, but I won't ......
2007-01-27 21:35:55 · answer #2 · answered by nanlwart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
T. S. Eliot
William Butler Yeats
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dorothy Parker
2007-01-27 15:12:44 · answer #3 · answered by irish1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try Shel Silverstein, he has written many poems and books such as: The Missing Piece, A Light In The Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, The Giving Tree, Runny Babbit: a Billy Sook, and A Giraffe and a Half. For more adult books, he has written Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book and Different Dances. to read more about him, I'll give you a link.
2007-01-27 16:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by Rosie 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Robert Frost, of course. I don't mean that he's the only poet out there (and I'm sure there are people who think he's overrated), but I love Frost and he one of the best-known and most honored American poets in history.
My favorite of his is The Road Not Taken (you probably have heard it before; "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood"...). There are some other good ones of his, including Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening; After Apple-Picking; Fire & Ice, as well as tons of other Frost poems. I think Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening is a close second favorite of mine.
Dylan Thomas is another very good poet. One of his more famous poems is Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, and another favorite is And Death Shall Have No Dominion.
Carl Sandberg, Walt Whitman, and Robert Burns are another few poets. There are scores of them out there, and actually, Whitman is not really a favorite of mine personally.
2007-01-27 14:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by aeshamali 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
K. Gibran, C. Baudelaire, E. A. Poe, G. Leopardi, S. A. Yesenin.
2007-01-27 16:03:12 · answer #6 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋