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I like Langston Hughes
and the poem
" The ***** Speaks Of Rivers"

2007-05-25 11:37:44 · 14 answers · asked by Inahzi13 5 in Arts & Humanities Poetry

14 answers

If I had just one favorite poet and poem, I think I would die of boredom.

I'm still reading it, but I really like the new book by C.J. Sage, Odyssea. It's a feminist (yeah, so) updating of the Odyssey. It's done in rhyming tercets and it's fun to see how she reverses the genders.

I just read Roddy Lumsden's Mischief Night and really liked that one a lot. Also another Scottish poet, Kathleen Jamie's book, Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead is really good.

Some poems that have caught my eye recently:

"Western Fragment" by Tracy K. Smith
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/westernfragment.shtml

"XOXO Los Angeles" by Ian Harris
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/xoxola.shtml

"Gargoyle" by Larissa Szporluk
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/gargoyle.shtml

"Hell" by Jason Bredle
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/hell.shtml

"The Tightrope Walker" by Lesley Dauer
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/tightrope.shtml

"Lament" by Betsy Sholl
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/lament.shtml

"Mock Orange" by Melanie Almeder
http://www.versedaily.org/2007/mockorange.shtml

2007-05-25 12:05:18 · answer #1 · answered by Dancing Bee 6 · 4 0

There are a lot of poets who I favor. I like Robert Bly, but recent work like The Night Abraham Called to the Stars. I like J.P. Dancing Bear who's work is in a similar vein in his book(?) Gacela of Narcissus City.

But there are others too. I like most of Louise Glück's books.
I think Reginald Shepherd's book Otherhood is really good. I enjoyed Mark Conway's Any Holy City. I picked up a book(?) by Paul Hostovsky, Dusk Outside the Braille Press, that I've really enjoyed.

I'm reading and really enjoying Lynda Hull's Collected Poems. I loved Mark Turpin's, Hammer.

Still a big fan of James Wright, I would recommend the collected works, Above the River. Jack Gilbert's two books, The Great Fires and Refusing Heaven are awesome.

I have two books by Margot Schilpp, Laws of My Nature and The World's Last Night and really enjoyed those. I'm planning to revisit them this summer.

2007-05-25 18:49:37 · answer #2 · answered by JD Guye 3 · 2 1

At present, Robert Frost is my favorite poet, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"

2007-05-25 18:55:31 · answer #3 · answered by Eskimo Hammer 4 · 0 0

My favorite poet - a three-way tie among Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden.

But my favorite poem is by yet another poet: Theodore Roethke:

"The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me, so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go."

2007-05-25 19:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by johnslat 7 · 2 0

I love Edgar Allen Poe and my favorite poem by him is the Raven.

2007-05-26 16:45:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I cant pick just one!! Top three:

William Stafford: "A Story That Could Be True"

Edgar Allan Poe: "Annabel Lee"

Jane Hirschfield: "Cabin"

2007-05-25 22:05:32 · answer #6 · answered by Reneejah 3 · 0 0

I'd have to say Edgar Allen Poe
his work is so dark and depressing yet it sheds light on
so many people
I like Anabelle Lee
there are many other poets i like as well just too many to name i'd be here for days!

2007-05-25 19:03:16 · answer #7 · answered by ScreamMeALullabyy 3 · 1 1

William Butler Yeats.

"When You Are Old" is my favorite, but I love all of his early love poems.

2007-05-25 23:29:04 · answer #8 · answered by R.H. 3 · 0 0

poet - Ogden Nash
Don't remember the name of this poem, I learned it when I was about 8 years old...

I eat my peas with honey,
I did so all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny
But it keeps them on my knife.

I know it's goofy, but it's my favorite.

2007-05-25 19:17:01 · answer #9 · answered by my2centsworth 4 · 1 0

I love Edgar Allan Poe and my fav poem is ANNABEL LEE

2007-05-25 18:44:49 · answer #10 · answered by oceanblue 3 · 1 0

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