August 21 is Poet’s Day. I was going to pull some of my favorites from the shelves, except then I felt I was slighting others, and all of them are brilliant to me for different reasons.
So off the top of my head and in no particular order,
YeatsAudenHughesHopkinsJongShakespeareThomasDickinson
MillayDonneBishopMonetteAngelouBlakeDotyEliot
WhitmanFrostBrowning(s)RilkeByronCummings
Who are your favorite poets?
Well I just bought Eddie Poe’s complete works, and I love Michael Longley, especially Ceasefire, the last two lines are beautiful… and have you ever heard of Merrit Malloy? I will be honest, I don’t know if she is good or not, my Dad gave my mom her books when they were working on their marriage in the 70’s and when I found them I wondered if that was what love was like. I always remembered them and I wonder if I remember them right and what I would think of them now. And you know me, I love to sing me some Dickenson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qyXSLGADB0
Also does Leonard Cohen … how did I forget him?
Stop! this version of Ceasefire is better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAxNRtTqDLI
and you know I love this one … https://web.cs.dal.ca/~johnston/poetry/bookofmyenemy.html but I love other clive James poems as well … http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/japanese-maple Man i didn’t know I loved poetry so much
William Cullen Bryant; William Stafford
Be safe and take care!