name association game

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Yes, Tailor. I suspect that there is a time limit for open posts to desencourage or limit the posting of spammers and I am a slow writer.

CL-Very interesting. Lived at a very productive time of English literature. Troubled life. Going to see if I can find The Female Quixote."They regarded her specifically as unladylike and incendiary.",lol!


Lascelles Abercrombie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascelles_Abercrombie

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-box-23/

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Can't be any slower than me... I use two fingers to type ��. LA: Associated with Robert Frost (a British poet: "one of the "Dymock poets""). "Professor of English at the University of Leeds in preference to J. R. R. Tolkien". A WWI vet; the poem quite innocent as such: " 'Kindly do not touch; it's war.' "

Anne Askew

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Askew

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-which-anne-askew-made-and-sang-when-she-was-in-newgate/

[Danik 2016]

Me too. So I have to save larger posts before posting or write them elsewhere. Saving the post by bits also works.
AA-An early woman poet and a brave woman caught up in a fight that wasn´t even hers. A inhuman fate. If she were catholic, she probably would have been canonized

Amy Lowell
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/amy_lowell/poems/19949

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AA: Pulitzer Prize in 1926. "as time went on, she censored her work less and less." Pricked Pound re: Imagism to her delight. Much maligned through prejudice. " inside everything was molten like the core of the earth... Given one more gram of emotion, Amy Lowell would have burst into flame and been consumed to cinders." - Heywood Broun.

Petals:

"Life is a stream
On which we strew
Petal by petal the flower of our heart;
.
.
We alone stay
While years hurry on,
The flower fared forth, though its fragrance still stays."


Archilochus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archilochus

http://www.ellopos.net/elpenor/greek-texts/ancient-greece/archilochus.asp

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A-Interesting personality but given to invectives.

Arna Bontemps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arna_Bontemps

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bontemps/additionalpoems.htm

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AB: Moved to NY during the Harlem Renaissance, staying until the Depression... friend of Langston Hughes. An interpretation of Reconnaissance... http://cullenshr.blogspot.com/2012/03/reconnaissance-by-arna-bontemps-after.html ... I was leaning towards viewing nuclear tests in the Pacific; a parallelism perhaps.

Barbara Moraff

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Moraff

http://www.longhousepoetry.com/barm1.jpg

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AB-Could be, yes, but nowadays I feel that even destruction is globalized and scattered. One doesn´t know any more where it may come from.
BM-Resourceful woman, mother and farmer. Likes to play with words.
Some more poems:http://www.cipherjournal.com/html/moraff.html

Mary Barnard
http://marybarnard.com/bio.html
http://marybarnard.com/poems.html
(Specially enjoyed Fable of the Ant and the Word and Shoreline)

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BM: Nice selection - 2 of 3 poems include a bald man in a pink shirt. MB: Looked for her Sappho on National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation”... the link provided is of no use. "Never one to be idle, Mary Barnard turned her love of research to her family genealogy tracing her origins to Nantucket. (In this process, she found she was actually a distant cousin of Ezra Pound!) Nantucket Genesis:The Tale of My Tribe was the creative result of this pursuit. Written in her own verse, interspersed with short historical documents, it is not only family history, but includes her own observations on the role of women during the movement west and the inheritance of property."... quite commendable. Shoreline suits my sensibilities well. The Rock of Levkas... wondering if my eyes are "salt blue". The Pleiades... delightful. Soft Chains... a minimalist's touch. Fable of the Ant and the Word... quite fanciful. Lethe: oblivion. Now... not yet. Wonderful poet.

Barbara Kingsolver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/babyblues/

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BK-Congo, Social activism, natural food experiments, two Honorary Doctorships, Rock Band with published authors, setting up a prize for activistic Literature and good poetry. It´s not little:

I want
the world
and it will not fit
in my mouth.


Kim Adonizio

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/kim-addonizio#poet

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/detail/41855

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KA: Sad poem. "The writer Andre Dubus III declared that “Kim Addonizio writes like Lucinda Williams sings, with hard-earned grit and grace about the heart’s longing for love and redemption, the kind that can only come in the darkest dark when survival no longer even seems likely. "" KA said: "There are only two useful rules I can think of for aspiring writers: learn your craft, and persist. The rest, as Henry James said, is the madness of art.”... great advice.

Ai

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/ai

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/42542

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Ai
Interesting background. Loved the epic poem;

"What color are you, gal?” She asked
and I told her, “I’m as black as last night.”
That's how I passed, without asking permission"
The other side of the story.

Arthur Bayldon
http://www.oldqldpoetry.com/index.php/arthur-bayldon

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sea-7/

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AB: His poetry "rigidly formal"; a man who truly loved humanity. Nice sonnet; uncertain where the volta is though, L12 ?

Bob Hicok

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/bob-hicok

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=39244

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AB-Or Line 13, where there is a shift of mood?
BH-Interesting poet. Strong images of the dissolving body and the dissolving conscience.


Hilaire Belloc
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/hilaire-belloc

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sarah-byng-who-could-not-read-and-was-tossed-into-a-thorny-hedge-by-a-bull/

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HB: Impulsive; "outspoken proponent of radical social and economic reforms". Associated with G. K. Chesterton. Neglected due to his unpopular views. "... The world will not care to read Belloc, but those who pick up his best books to savor his historical imagination, the overall keenness of his mind, and the simple force of his prose will need no other reason to return to him again and again." Tarantella: Delightful poem

Beatrix Potter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter

https://mypoeticside.com/poets/beatrix-potter-poems

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-have-a-little-garden/

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BP-Love her. Once saw a film of her life. A Victorian author for children


Pierre Nepveu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Nepveu


http://numerocinqmagazine.com/2016/12/11/routed-heart-notebooks-jean-mongeau-poems-pierre-nepveu-translated-donald-winkler/

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PN: Canadian Poet: wonderful prose poetry; loved these lines especially:

"Rock me, rock me, take
my broken body, my routed heart
for I lost my footing,
slid on a solid stone
while seeking support,

saw the water darker
than the deeps of our souls
and the time of man
shrunk to nothing,
rock me for what remains of beauty
when the foundering sun
shuts the book of wonders,
the sweet legend of a peopled world,
while the rapids far off, their froth abated,
roar on through the night
like beasts that stalk their prey.

Rock me, woman who douses the lamp,
go to sleep now alone so as to feel no pain,
I journey on under a heavy weight
and eternity is for me a deep chill,
my solitude counts for less than your own,
it vexes even the dusk
where I seek forgiveness in vain."


Nikki Giovanni

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/possum-crossing/

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NG-Italian descendence. Activism. Cute poem.Animal preservation


Guillaume Apollinaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Apollinaire.htm#anchor_Toc24461590

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GA: "Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism." and "His friends and collaborators in that period included Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Gertrude Stein, Max Jacob, André Salmon, André Breton, André Derain, Faik Konica, Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Reverdy, Alexandra Exter, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Ossip Zadkine, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp and Jean Metzinger."... enough said. Loved The Cat; The Caterpillar inspires.

Anne Ley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Ley

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Anne Ley- Renaissance poet. Hard life, dubious editing story.
Note on Roger Ley-Can be found on Facebook and Linkedin but hasn´t got a separate Wikipedia bio.



Louis Macneice
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/louis-macneice

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=22603

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LM: "underlying melancholy... characterizes much of his work"... "There has been some continuing critical interest in his work, and though it seems unlikely that he will be upgraded to the status of a major poet, his reputation is certainly as high as that of any British poet of the 1930s other than Auden." LM: Overall quite accomplished and, critics aside, an indelible legacy. I Am That I Am: A sad poem, from my perspective, a reflection of LM's belief, or lack thereof.

Moero

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moero

Reference: http://johns-reading-room.yolasite.com/resources/J._W._MACKAIL-SELECT_EPIGRAMS_FROM_THE_GREEK_ANTHOLOGY.pdf

pg 96:


TO THE NYMPHS OF ANIGRUS / MOERO

Nymphs of Anigrus, maidens of the river, who evermore tread with rosy
feet these divine depths, hail and save Cleonymus who set these fair
images to you, goddesses, beneath the pines.

pg 97:


TO APHRODITE OF THE GOLDEN HOUSE / MOERO

Thou liest in the golden portico of Aphrodite, O grape-cluster filled
full of Dionysus’ juice, nor ever more shall thy mother twine round
thee her lovely tendril or above thine head put forth her honeyed
leaf.

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Moero- Another interesting find! From what survived of Greek poetry one gets a small idea of what got lost.


Matthew Arnold
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/matthew-arnold

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/growing-old/

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MA: "the most modern of the Victorians." Poet & critic, steeped in philosophy: "there are two offices of Poetry--one to add to one's store of thoughts and feelings--another to compose and elevate the mind by a sustained tone, numerous allusions, and a grand style." Growing Old: "Ah, 'tis not what in youth we dreamed 'twould be!".

Anna Seward

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Seward

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/december-morning/

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AS-"Though Canon Seward's (but not his wife's) attitudes towards the education of girls was progressive relative to the times, they were not excessively liberal. Amongst the subjects he taught them was theology and numeracy, and how to read and appreciate poetry, and also how to write and recite poetry. Although this deviated from what were considered ' conventional drawing room accomplishments', the omissions were also notable, including languages and science, although they were left free to pursue their own inclinations".
Delicate poem.

Sam Hunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hunt_(poet)

http://tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com.br/2012/12/lines-for-new-year-by-sam-hunt.html

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SH: "... New Zealand's best-known poet" whose poetry contains "unabashed romanticism" and is "one of New Zealand's most recognisable (sic) figures." SH's poetry from you selection: Simple language - wonderful imagery.

H.D.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/h-d

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/48189

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H D-Search for identity, Ezra Pound, complicated love life.Sheltered Garden: Original images (association with the Garden of Eden not mere coincidence). Despair.Sheltered life X The right to transgress.

Douglas Dunn
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/douglas-dunn

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/larksong/

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DD: Draft Dodger ? 10+ books of poetry; knew Philip Larkin from working with him in a library. Larksong... L5 and L6 would have been better served without the trappings of technology matching the tone of the rest of the poem IMHO.

Dante Alighieri

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-divine-comedy-inferno/dante-alighieri-biography

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/there-is-a-gentle-thought/

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DD-Draft Dodger?
DA-Sweet poem. Love his Divine Comedy. Had some sense of humour. All his political enemies where put into the hell part of the poem.


Antonio Machado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Machado

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-jo-347-e-mar-943-a-palacio/#content

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DA: Haven't read The Divine Comedy yet... I slogged through The Inferno about 10-years ago. AM: Spanish poet. Tragic the loss of his young wife. A natural poet of place as he dedicates the poem to his friend.

Marjorie Fleming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Fleming

http://www.poetryexplorer.net/poem.php?id=10060091

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DA- I think that The Inferno is the most interesting part of the Divine Comedy.
MF- Absolutely amazing. A child poet that reads adult poetry and has a very own sense of humour:'EPHIBOL ON MY DEAR LOVE ISABELLA "She and I in bed lie nice./And undisturbed by rats and mice;" A great pity she died so young.

François Villon
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/francois-villon

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ballad-of-the-ladies-of-yore/

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FV: "perhaps the best-known French poet of the Middle Ages"... Perhaps a rogue, and companion of rogues, as well. I looked up his refrain in the poem you cited... "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" or: Why does life fade so quickly ?

Vittoria Colonna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittoria_Colonna

The following is a bit convoluted (in need of editing) and needs to be magnified (Ctrl +) but adds much information on her life, times, and poetry:

https://archive.org/stream/vittoriacolonnah00roscrich/vittoriacolonnah00roscrich_djvu.txt

and a poem:

http://www.jimandellen.org/vcsonnets/vcsonnet85.html

... the preceding from Ellen Moody's marvelous pages: http://www.jimandellen.org/vcpoetry/vctitle.htm

... from the greater http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/emhome.htm created by her husband Jim

[Danik 2016]

Just took a quick break on LitNet. Have to buy black ink for my printer. Reading about Victoria when I am back

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There's a lot there... if rushed for time just read links 1 and 3... I was amazed at the work others had done.

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VC-Interesting historical figure, of political and religious influence, Friendship with Michelangelo. Beautiful pages! Read the poem but am going to come back to browse in the Archiv.

Charlotte Brontë
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/charlotte-bronte#about

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/pleasure-2/

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CB: Watched most of a movie the other day about the Brontë sisters that was interesting, albeit melodramatic. Only 38 or 39 years old when she passed on. I wasn't aware of her poetry at all. Her poem in an abab form using sight rhyme as well as perfect rhyme (a typo with yound instead of young) is very nice.

Bobby Long

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Long_(musician)

http://nodepression.com/article/bobby-long-loses-his-brotherhood-and-exposes-his-humanity

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BL-Noticed just now, that we were born on the same day (a difference of 32 years). Musician, likes poetry written in Spanish.


"I still come back here to remind myself,
that upon this ridge where the moss grows,
the moss is still growing."


Laxmi Prasad Devkota

http://xnepali.net/laxmi-prasad-devkota-nepali-mahakabi/

http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewPoetry.asp?id=76848

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LPD: The greatest poet of Nepal: "Nepali poetry soared to new heights with Devkota’s groundbreaking and innovative use of the language." Poetically adroit. Wonderful ethos. Enjoyed these lines from Muna Madan :
She lives across the river.
On the other side.
But she laughs with the flowers,
dances with water,
blinks with the stars,
speaks with the blackbird,
and her eyes, they shine.
She weeps with the dew
and when she is sad,
you will see the mist sinking.

Denise Duhamel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Duhamel

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/denise_duhamel/poems/14860

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DD-Very irreverent. Liked her description of the poet "Ai", who is already listed in the thread. In Portuguese there is a different association to "Ai":
It´s an exclamation of pain. Found another poem by her:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54110



Derek Walcott
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/derek-walcott


http://www.poetrycat.com/derek-walcott/after-the-storm

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Ai: Same here; also an exclamation often coined Ai Ai Ai ! or Ai yi yi (or Aya Yi Yi)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtUpq84olaw DD: Enjoyed Ego. DW: Caribbean poet and playwright. After The Storm dovetails nicely with Denise Duhamel's Ego. He's since passed on (17 March 2017) since we last visited him (typo on his name first time around this past January: corrected). "In 1992, Walcott won the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel committee described his work as “a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment.”"

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallada_bint_al-Mustakfi

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?85464-My-Translation-of-Wallad-s-Poems-(From-Arabic-to-English)

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Wallada bint al-Mustakfi-From Andalusia when it still was dominated by the Arab nobility.
Interesting how she found her place as a woman and a poet among all those male sucessors. I remember Amylian´s translations of her verses.

Marvin Bell
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/marvin-bell

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=30898

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-or-someone-like-me/

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MB: "American poet and critic Marvin Bell "is a poet of the family." Quite astute about the secrets to writing poetry. AN AFTERWORD TO MY FATHER (his emphasis not mine): a poem about family and family history which is dear to me. I also like the sensibility that shines with Or Someone Like Me.

Barbara Goldberg

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/barbara-goldberg

http://barbaragoldberg.net/html/poems.html

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BG-Quite ironic. Unexpected themes like this one:https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=35476

Georg Trakl

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/georg-trakl

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=28696

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BG: Teeth... Too close to the mark. GT: WWI vet. Compared with Arthur Rimbaud; high praise.
Herbert Lindenberger wrote in Georg Trakl, “The lofty stance, the cosmic range, and the haunting music of Trakl’s poetry now mark him, with Rilke, as perhaps the last great representative of what could be called the sublime tradition in German.” Sebastian im Traum: a surreal feast.

Tess Gallagher

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/tess-gallagher

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54051

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TG-Simple natural style, seems to be talking to you. Didn´t feel very confortable about the jains on account of the swastica, but Hitler possibly perverted the symbol
Enjoyed this poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48950/choices



Guy Wetmore Carryl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Wetmore_Carryl

http://www.poetrycat.com/guy-wetmore-carryl/how-a-cat-was-annoyed-and-a-poet-was-booted

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TG: Delightful poem; dedicated to the poet Drago Štambuk... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drago_Štambuk . GWC: "American humorist and poet"; some of his poems humorous parodies of Aesop's tales and others. Sadly died at 31.How A Cat Was Annoyed And A Poet Was Booted: Cute.

Caroline Clive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Clive

https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/age-11

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CC-Very Victorian, reminds me a bit of Anne Brontë.



Constantine Cavafy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_P._Cavafy

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/constantine_p__cavafy/poems/6530

http://www.cavafy.com/poems/list.asp?cat=1

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CC: A perectionist. "His poems are, typically, concise but intimate evocations of real or literary figures and milieux that have played roles in Greek culture." Candles: an interesting take on mortality.

Voices

Voices, loved and idealized,
of those who have died, or of those
lost for us like the dead.

Sometimes they speak to us in dreams;
sometimes deep in thought the mind hears them.

And with their sound for a moment return
sounds from our life’s first poetry—
like music at night, distant, fading away.


Carolyn Kizer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Kizer

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poet-s-household/

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CK- More or less normal life it seems but died of dementia. Enjoyed the poem!



Konstantin Balmont

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Balmont

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/yevgeny/balmont/deer.html

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KB: Russian poet, translator, and activist. Passionate in life and politics: Prone to jumping through windows. Some of his poems have been set to music by Russia's best composers. The Deer, as translated is a sonnet, albeit imperfect, with sight and near rhymes and a form break: ABBA ABBA CDE CDC - wherein lies its charm.

Blanaid Salkeld

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanaid_Salkeld

https://ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/blanaid-salkeld-forgotten-irish-woman-poet/

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BS- Multicultural background:India/Ireland. Reviewer of contemporary poetry.Herself reviewed by Becket. Enjoyed the rythm of her poem

Sharon Olds
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sharon-olds

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54907/the-flurry

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SO: "... the poet Billy Collins has called her “a poet of sex and the psyche,” adding that “Sharon Olds is infamous for her subject matter alone…but her closer readers know her as a poet of constant linguistic surprise.”" The Flurry: a visual feast. I also liked this poem: Take the I Out https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/take-the-i-out/

Orhan Veli Kanik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orhan_Veli_Kanık

http://www.beyond-the-pale.uk/kanik.htm

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OVK-Inovative poetry. Loved the page, the sensibility and the humour (Poem with a tail) in his poems.

Kenneth Patchen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Patchen


https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/orange-bears

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KP: Though influential to the beat poet scene he eschewed their excesses. Writer of Jazz poetry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_poetry and childlike "painted poems". Friend of E.E. Cummings. Youtube selections I hope you can access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9JMb0C0uLo (includes Orange Bears in his voice) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9W3QN5W8fA

Petra Müller

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/12681/10/Petra-Muller

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poem/item/12709/auto/0/GAUGUIN-AFTER-THE-SERMON

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KP-Interesting links. Enjoyed specially the second spoken poem. Still don´t know who the orange bears stand for.
PM- South Africa. Adult and Children poetry. Very spontaneous verse. "Everything turns to flame so suddenly "- A good definition the paintings of Gauguin.


Max Jacob
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/max-jacob

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=25472

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KP: The consensus online seems to be that the Orange Bears are the industrial workers, including his father, whose health is sacrificed (soot and slag, etc.) for corporate profit; in parallel the flowers are covered in soot on the sill. MJ: French poet experimenting in cubism/surrealism/symbolism. Interesting collection of poems; I liked BANKS, translated by Elizabeth Bishop, very much.

Janine Pommy Vega

https://alchetron.com/Janine-Pommy-Vega-1020576-W

http://www.poemsbypost.com/?p=769

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KP-Thanks for looking it up, Tailor. Orange has so many meanings today.
JV-Beat generation, cosmopolitan biography. Poem has probably the form of a song.

Vicente Huidobro

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Huidobro

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ars-poetica-15/


"I was born at the age of 33 on the day Christ died; I was born at the
Equinox, under the hydrangeas and the aeroplanes in the heat.
I had the soulful gaze of a pigeon, a tunnel, a sentimental motorcar. I
heaved sighs like an acrobat.
My father was blind and his hands were more wonderful than the night.
I love the night, the hat of every day.
The night, the night of day, from one day to the next.
My mother spoke like the dawn, like blimps about to fall. Her hair was
the color of a flag and her eyes were full of far-off ships.
One day, I gathered up my parachute and said: “Between two swallows
and a star.” Here death is coming closer like the earth to a falling balloon.
My mother embroidered abandoned tears on the first rainbows.
And now my parachute drops from dream to dream through the spaces
of death."
www.pequeñodios.cl/wp.../06/ALTAZOR-BILINGUE-web.pdf

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VH: "Chilean poet... known for promoting the Avant-garde literary movement in Chile, and the creator and greatest exponent of the literary movement called Creacionismo ("Creationism") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creacionismo ." Ars Poetica a poem with poetic advice "Let poetry be like a key / Opening a thousand doors..." The other poem has some nice imagery in it, however the link to the .pdf file gave me a 404 error for some reason and I could not access.

Hilda Conkling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Conkling

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=15672

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VH- His (short) Artic Poems:
http://www.saltana.org/1/inv/arctic_poems.pdf
Altazor (link corrected):
http://www.pequeñodios.cl/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ALTAZOR-BILINGUE-web.pdf

HC-Another child poet. Beautiful poems. Pity she stopped when she grew up. Some mystery there.

Charles Causley

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/nov/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview7

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/british-war-cemetery-bayeux

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VH: Nice websites /.pdfs... will have to revisit to soak it all in << This is the way I envision poetry to be accessible. CC: A humble poet from Cornwall (I had to look up where Cornwall was... it's the Westiest from my English roots, Southiest from my Scottish roots, and South/East from my Irish roots... it looks like a toe testing the waters of the Atlantic.). His poem "At the British War Cemetery, Bayeux" a fine tribute to the fallen, especially"... Take, they replied, the oak and laurel. / Take our fortune of tears and live / Like a spendthrift lover. All we ask / Is the one gift you cannot give."

Candice James

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_James

http://www.mywordwizard.com/surrealist-poems.html

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Candice James:

In the eye of the hurricane
Wandering through the chaos
Those with closed eyes.
Those with scarred souls
Eddying,
In the core of the whirlpool Nothing more needs to be said.

Joseph Von Eichendorf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Freiherr_von_Eichendorff


https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/night-of-the-moon/
Note: Moon night in German

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JFvE: "Prussian poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist... one of the major writers and critics of Romanticism... the most popular German poet set into music." His legacy endures to this day. Enjoyed his poem Wünschelrute, or Wishing Well, shown on Wikipedia. I was reading a quote earlier today that accompanies his poem nicely:



Wishing Wand

A song's asleep in everything
And it dreams on and on,
And the world begins to sing,
Once you hit the magic tone.

- Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorf


~~~~~

To love a person is to learn
the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them when
they have forgotten.

- Arne Garborg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne_Garborg
Night Of The Moon: a nice poem that suffers from translation.


Fiona Sampson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Sampson

https://thekindlingjournal.org/fiona-sampson/

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JFvE- More Moon Night
http://www.fullmoon.info/en/blog/the-moonlit-night-eichendorff.html (A better translation perhaps but didn´t like the walking breeze)

FS-No date of birth of this very active poet. Both poems give me a sensation of someone striving upwards.


Sophie Cabot Black
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sophie-cabot-black

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54661/bird-left-behind

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JFvE: the new translation is more poetic... I agree with your assessment about the walking breeze. FS: Google states born Born: 1963 (no month nor day), London, United Kingdom - which is younger than I anticipated. SCB: New England/New York poet. I liked Bird Left Behind and, with apologies to the 3-poets, edited and mashed up the similar voices into one theme:



Three Voices on a Theme



S1


A song's asleep in everything
And it dreams on and on,
And the world begins to sing,
Once you hit the magic tone.



~~~~~~~~
S2

To love a being is to learn
the song that is in their heart
and to sing it to them tenderly
when they have forgotten.



~~~~~~~~
S3

A bird came back to find her kind
And none found took herself up
Into a tree and began to sing
the song she wanted sung back to her.

7/11/2017

- S1: Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorf (Wishing Wand) / S2: Arne Garborg (edited quote) / S3: Sophie Cabot Black (edited the last 4-verses of Bird Left Behind )

Bernadette Mayer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Mayer

https://jacket2.org/poems/day

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Loved the combination of the three poems. A language question to AG: for me as a non native it´s strange the use of pronouns in the plural with a noun in the singular. Yet I have seen it in several texts of late and now again in the poem.

BM-German American background. Loved the poem formed like a tree.

Meg Sefton
"Margaret's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Flash Frontier, Writing in a Woman's Voice, Blue Fifth Review, Bizarro Central, Honey Pot, Alyss, Best New Writing, The Dos Passos Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, Still Crazy, Asylum Ink, Quail Bell, Danse Macabre, Dark Sky Magazine, Chrome Baby, The Strange Edge, Beakful, Serving House Journal, Corium Magazine, Double Room, Emprise Review, Connotation Press, Atticus Review, Apocrypha and Abstractions, DecomP, The Quarterly Conversation, Get Lit: Round One Flash Fiction, A-minor magazine, Wufniks, 791 MENU, Trainwrite, State of Imagination, Pure Slush, Dark Chaos, Blink Ink, 52/250, Kaffe at Katmandu, Relief, and Colored Chalk.

She received her BA in Literature from Wake Forest University, her MA in Adult Education from Denver Seminary, and her MFA in Fiction from Seattle Pacific University. She lives in central Florida with her son and little white dog "Annie," a Coton de Tulear."

liquid asylum
https://brokenwriterblog.wordpress.com

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MS: Beautiful website/blog; a little poetry but mostly well done short stories / flash fiction

• "I started a new blog for women who want to speak their mind, anonymously, about anything."...

• "A pen is better than a stick or a sword and frees the weave of my heart. At some point, every friend is an enemy, but even if my life is counted for nothing, a pen is more loyal."

... Me, I'd trust Parker with anything.

• "It has been well known for quite some time that on the outskirts of Munir, a city that could well be considered a test city for a heretofore untapped source of fuel, the bodies of the useless women currently are housed."

... Nice premise.

Stephen Vincent Benét

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Vincent_Benét

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/stephen_vincent_benet/poems/3017

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SVB- I love his story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and I also liked the poem very much. Modest but not at all minor.



Bertrand de Born

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertran_de_Born

http://deremilitari.org/2014/03/two-poems-by-the-twelfth-century-knight-troubadour-bertran-de-born/

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BdB: 1140~1215 a French Baron poet who was "a master of the sirventes"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirventes . Knights, castles, maces, swords, battle depicted in poetry.

Berlie Doherty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlie_Doherty

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ghost-garden

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BdB- Often sounds parodical to me as he emphasizes the horrors of war. Should like to know your opinion as your sensibility for poetry is more accurate then mine.
BD-Social themes. Gap of time between her childhood literature and her adult production. Enjoyed her delicate poem.


Dannie Abse
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dannie-abse

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/epithalamion

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BdB: His poetry reflects the reality of his times having to personally deal with usurpers, class systems, politics, and war... . DA: Welsh physician and poet: "Considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the past century"... "In addition to being a poet and editor, he was a successful memoirist, essayist, playwright, and novelist.". Influenced by Dylan Thomas and Rilke early on. The poem shares the title of one by Edmund Spenser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser in 1594 to his bride Elizabeth Boyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithalamion_(poem) the word having an ancient etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epithalamium. To me the poem is more melancholy than I would have imagined of such a joyous time as he includes the "living and the dead" throughout.

Angela Morgan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Morgan

https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/god-the-artist-by-angela-morgan

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DA- Interesting observation about the dialogue with Spenser's poem. Here is it: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45191/epithalamion-56d22497d00d4 I don´t see the reference to the "living and the dead" as so melancholic. He is making a homage and a direct reference to Spencer's poem and continuing his tradition.

AM-A cute poem. "Her career as a writer started as a journalist for the Chicago and New York newspapers before World War I. Much of her time was spent visiting courts, jails, and other places where suffering was present in order to cover her news stories. It was this experience that helped her write about social issues in future poems."https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/in-spite-of-war-by-angela-morgan


Mark McWatt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McWatt

http://signifyinguyana.typepad.com/signifyin_guyana/2011/02/fishing-by-mark-mcwatt-.html

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DA: Ah, I see. AM: "In Spite of War"... Quirky war poem. MMcW: "Guyanese writer and educator." Enjoyed the fishing analogy for the poetic process.

Mary Karr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr

https://alisonmcghee.com/2016/03/26/poem-of-the-week-by-mary-karr-2/

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MK- Poem: Aai!!


Kevin Crossley Holland
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/kevin-crossley-holland

http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2483/dusk%2C-burnham-overy-staithe.html

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/grain-things

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KCH: English poet; "Crossley-Holland's language is also steeped in Anglo-Saxon influences, particularly evident in the rich patterns of alliteration and assonance which recall the strongly accented rhythms of the period's poetry. Above all, Crossley-Holland's preference for a pared-down vocabulary connects his work to the early origins of the English language: as he says in 'Translation Workshop: Grit and Blood', "I want earth-words/tough roots". His poem Dusk, Burnham Overy Staithe simple yet moving. The Grain of Things: "ruckled pomegranate" - very descriptive; a delightful poem. I would have chosen more but the website discourages copying for pasting.

Hazel Hall

(the "Emily Dickinson of Oregon")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Hall

http://alexsheremet.com/review-3-poems-hazel-hall/

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KCH-One more poem: http://www.kevincrossley-holland.com/poetry.html
HH-"Her poems are usually too ‘small,’ both in subject and accomplishment, to ever be called visionary, in the deeper sense, but they do have a kind of small-v vision, a way of looking at the world that, when compounded over time, is uniquely Hall’s." She has the "miopic vision" which Brazilian critic Gilda de Mello e Souza described as the typical feminine perspective of the women that were confined to the four walls of her home, before they started to work outside their homes. HH was confined to her home because of her paralysis. Her associations are certainly original. Personified stitches:"Stitches running up a seam/Are not like feet beside a stream,/And the thread that swishes after/Is not at all like human laughter." A woman dissolving into rain? "What stirred in my pulse now sighs/In the long sigh of the rain;/What was restlessness will rain/Against some woman’s windowpane/And make a woman close her eyes."

Helen Dunmore

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/helen-dunmore

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/city-lilacs

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=42214

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KCH: SEA DEW... enchanting in its simplicity; a place I'd like to be. HH: Very nice analysis and review. HD: Recently passed on (June 5, 2017) since last we visited her in December of last year. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/helen-dunmore-facing-mortality-birdcage-walk (Litany - an accurate portrayal of the aged; a not so tedious list. City lilac - I read this eerily to Enya's "Sancta Maria"; she had a good intuition of the hidden city.

Deborah Digges

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Digges

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46377/vesper-sparrows

http://www.raintaxi.com/setting-fires-the-poetry-and-prose-of-deborah-digges/

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Beautiful video (Sancta Maria). HD- Unvoluntary revisitation, though no much harm done as the poems probably are different. Good article with beautiful pictures of her. Seems she is most remembered as a novelist.

DD-Her poetry combines harsher and softer images. Influence of her father´s profession (Thought first she was a doctor herself the hospital images are very strong)Enjoyed the review.

Denis Glover
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Glover

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/child

http://nzpoems.blogspot.com.br/2011/04/magpies-denis-glover.html

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DG: New Zealand poet and publisher. For a Child is a sweet little poem.The refrain "Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle" of the poem "The Magpies" (1941), imitating the sound of the Australian magpie, is one of the most famous lines in New Zealand poetry.

Georgia Douglas Johnson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Douglas_Johnson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53017/common-dust

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GDJ-Loved her poems. Simple and to the point.


The Heart of a Woman
Georgia Douglas Johnson
The heart of a woman goes forth with the dawn,
As a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on,
Afar o’er life’s turrets and vales does it roam
In the wake of those echoes the heart calls home.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night,
And enters some alien cage in its plight,
And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars
While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.

Jonathan Edwards
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/jonathan-edwards

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/nun-bicycle

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-07d9-Five-poems-by-Jonathan-Edwards#.WW6-z6n790x

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JE: Welsh poet; "possesses an ear for pop culture and a talent for striking, surprising imagery, which often occur together against the unassuming backdrops of ‘everyday life’ – the supermarkets, cafes and airport vistas of 21st century Britain – and make comparisons with poets like Simon Armitage or Billy Collins inevitable and justified." Nun on a Bicycle: L3 and L16 in opposition, an otherwise light poem. The 5-poems offered next are of the everyday mixed with humor and malice.

Edwina Hume Fallis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwina_Hume_Fallis

http://www.daughterofhope.com/2012/09/september-by-edwina-fallis.html

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EHF-Teacher and seller of toys.

Fay Zwicky
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/fay-zwicky

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/witnesses

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55114/the-poet-asks-forgiveness

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FZ: "was widely acknowledged and awarded as one of Australia's most important and exhilarating poets". The Witnesses is a fun take on Magpies. The Poet Asks Forgiveness, an apology for unwritten poems... delightful: "forgive me the colours they might have worn"

zakia henderson brown

https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/zakia-henderson-brown

http://nationalpoetrymonth.tumblr.com/post/156557482313/april-7-2016-zakia-henderson-brown

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ZHB-Contemporaneous poet, hospital recollections, the frailties of being alive.


Bernadine Evaristo
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/bernardine-evaristo

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/epilogue-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-1995

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BE: English poet; "Her writing is characterised by experimentation, ranging in genre through poetry, fiction, verse-novels, drama and literary criticism, and typically challenges the myths around various Afro-diasporic histories and identities." Epilogue - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1995 is a wonderful prose poem of searching for her roots and identity; I can feel her yearning.

Eva Gore Booth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eva-gore-booth

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46533/the-dreamer-56d226720a908

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EGB- Irish poet, woman rights activist, influence of Yeats."Largely associated with the Celtic revival that swept over her homeland at the turn of the twentieth century[...]In addition to being a writer, Gore-Booth was also a political activist." The Dreamer- Beautiful and terrible.


Billy Childish
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/billy-childish

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/i-am-strange-hero-hunger

https://www.artsy.net/artist/billy-childish

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BC: English poet and artist; "his work is frequently at odds with the concerns of the mainstream literary and art worlds." I AM THE STRANGE HERO OF HUNGER an incredible poem. His paintings are alive in ways that almost defy description.

Charlotte Mew

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charlotte-mew

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-fields/

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CM-A very sad life. Her losses reverberate in her poems, which transmit a strong sense of unfulfilled yearnings.



Moniza Alvi
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/moniza-alvi

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-would-like-to-be-a-dot-in-a-painting-by-miro/

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MA: "Deryn Rees-Jones ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryn_Rees-Jones ) has said that '[m]uch of Alvi's work engages with a surreal or fantastical world of fractured and partially recovered identity..." which is exemplified in her poem Would Like To Be A Dot In A Painting By Miro ... an amusing and delightful poem; ref: Joan Miró - http://www.joan-miro.net/joan-miro-paintings.jsp

A. A. Milne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._A._Milne

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mirror-64/

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Just now discovered that A. A. stand for Alan Alexander and that the bear stories were inspired by his son, Christopher Robin. Old memories: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tra-la-la-tra-la-la/. Cute poem

Mandy Coe
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/mandy-coe

http://www.mandycoe.com/poems_a.htm

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AAM: lol, "b'bibbiddy babble"/tS. MC: "Mandy Coe’s poems are characterised by their energetic delight in language." I enjoyed The Weight of Cows the best of the selection.

Corinna

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinna

http://korinna-kore.blogspot.com/2007/07/other-fragments-from-corinnas-poems.html

http://www.casa-kvsa.org.za/1995/AC38-03-Henderson.pdf

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C-Interesting find. One of the rare female Greek poets, wrote about 300?Few surviving fragments, mythological themes. Henderson:"What we can[...] extract from the fragments concerning her views on poetry adds a few more pieces to the complex and incomplete puzzle of Greek lyric poetry. * "

Christine de Luca
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/christine-de-luca

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/meeting-vulcan

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-little-nap-rap/

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CdL: Shetland poet whose poetry has been set to music. Meeting Vulcan: an homage perhaps to a statue of Vulcan. A Little Nap Rap: a delightful rap rhyme.

Lorine Niedecker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorine_Niedecker

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/niedecker/poems.html

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LN-Only American woman poet associated with Objectivism. Her poems often read like realistic prose in verse.
Poet's Work[.Each verse has the form of a typewriter.

Nigel Mc Loughlin
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/nigel-mcloughlin

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/catching-fire

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NMcL: "McLoughlin’s voice is a delight, rich with roots that stretch deeply into the poet’s sense of home." "For him, the writing process is one of close attunement to the emotional effect of the line in relation to content, sometimes working these elements disparately to create unexpected effects." Catching Fire is an interesting contrast of perception. Also enjoyed Stones http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/stones

Madeline Gleason

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Gleason

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=22733

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MG-Poet and dramatist. Enjoyed the nostalgic images of "The surviving mirror".

Gillian Clarke

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/gillian-clarke

http://www.gillianclarke.co.uk/gc2017/a-difficult-birth/
and selection

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GC: Contemporary Welsh poet who became the 3rd National Poet of Wales. The poem A Difficult Birth is 3-stories entwined to form the poem (see Notes… on poem page).

Conrad Aiken

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Aiken

"... largely responsible for establishing Emily Dickinson's reputation as a major American poet."

http://markandrewholmes.com/theroom.html

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CA-Tragic loss of his parents. Influences: psychoanalysis, Whitman and George Santayana."The room"- a powerfull poem that somehow is related to surviving the tragedy of his childhood.

Anne Brontë

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anne-bronte

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-consolation-4/

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AB: Youngest of the Brontë sisters; a poet and novelist of renown. For me the meter of The Consolation belies the hopefulness and optimism of the protagonist.

Brent Fisk

http://www.bgdailynews.com/community/on-the-bookshelf-what-assistant-librarian-brent-fisk-is-reading/article_d60b2437-0785-5b89-a043-56131d157296.html

http://www.autumnskypoetry.com/number12/Brent_Fisk.html

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AB-I agree with you, it´s a heavy meter. The other poems from her I read were still sadder.
BF-Academic, original points of view, sense of humor. Liked his comment on the recurrence of the basic plot in Jane Austen:"I tried to read three Jane Austen novels at once and for several days was convinced Elizabeth Bennet had 12 unmarried sisters." Enjoyed the tenderness and the humor of "A bee in the car".


Fleur Adcock

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/fleur-adcock


https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-man-who-x-rayed-an-orange-2/

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FA: Poet, New Zealand born, England raised; "The influence of Fleur Adcock's migratory childhood can be traced in her work's exploration of identity." "Her poems often bring to light women's lives that might otherwise be marginalised or forgotten". The Man Who X-Rayed An Orange... a poem about madness ? Disappointed that there was no exploration regarding a rhyme word for orange.

Alcman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcman

http://www.blackcatpoems.com/a/slumbering_are_the_mountains.html

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A-Greek lyric choral poet(7th century BC).Maybe an emancipated slave, that composed in the dialect of Sparta. Judging from the translated fragments a very sensual poetry. Celebration of life and nature.

Alexander Blok
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Blok

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flaming-signs-of-the-mystery/

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AB: Death by bureaucracy. "... often compared with Alexander Pushkin, and is considered perhaps the most important poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry." Flaming Signs Of The Mystery: a dream poem. The English translation needs a little work. The poetic symbolism he employs would be interesting to explore further.

Biddy Jenkinson

http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/j/Jenkinson_B/life.htm

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/539561/pdf

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=48299

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BJ- Irish poet. Defends the importance of the Irish language (resists translations of her own poetry into English)."In addition to setting up a high artistic standard, as a poet who writes in Irish, Jenkinson stands apart from the English-speaking Irish literary culture; at the same time, Denman writes, she confronts an overwhelmingly male poetic tradition and the status quo by bringing in a singular female perspective on both modernity and tradition." (Denman,"Rude Gestures? Contemporary Women's Poetry in Irish" [End Page 58] ). "Eve in the Garden...". Female fruitfulness and work as positive resistance.



Julia Bird
http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/julia-bird

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/article-faith

http://poetryspotlight.com/julia-bird/

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JB: English poet likened to Elizabeth Bishop ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Bishop )
no less (high praise). Article of Faith has an interesting premise about the persistence of atoms/molecules/breath from one time to another shared. "Hello – all well here ta"... quite endearing. She Stands in the Bedroom Doorway Wearing His Gift, Saying Don’t Look Yet… a brief moment frozen in time as 'she' gathers herself for the next chapter in her life.

Bessie Rayner Parkes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Rayner_Parkes

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-midsummer-night-s-dream-3/
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The last year Alphabetically:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FHj53t8bvGOJJcoEbh31Zeb7ta8b8RNcq1tUTef8Cpw/pub

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Thanks for posting the lists, Tailor, they are very handy now for consultation. I also made a copy for myself of my list (alphabetical order by first names).