name association game

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Rachel Sela
http://mypoeticside.com/poets/rachel-bluwstein-poems

Beautiful voice; a most tragic life.

Salvatore Quasimodo http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/street-in-agrigentum/

Interesting poem!

Quincy Troupe
http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_e...-quincy-troupe

Must have been embarrassing to give up his CA poet laureate position. I read Poem for My Father which had a surprising use of language in a conversational tone about his Father's baseball years. .

Ted Hughes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes

A dark life story!

Henry James

James Thurber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber

Thomas Wolfe

William Saroyan ... https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/...n-saroyan.html

^{Interesting article. Going back to it later}

Sinclair Lewis

Lorna Goodison ... http://bombmagazine.org/article/2533/four-poems

I like "The yard man"

(João) Guimarães Rosa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%...r%C3%A3es_Rosa

I read the wikipedia summary of "The Devil to Pay in the Backlands". It's a shame the English version loses the spirit of his writing; still, I may order a copy to borrow.

Richard Jones I like "Sacrifices" of the 6 poems I read: http://www.poemhunter.com/richard-jones/ ; a very folksy style of writing employed.

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/a...guimaraes-rosa. It is the great Brazilian ephic. This one seems to be a good translation, one can read the opening paragraphs). But don´t read the one in internet by a certain Martinez. I had a look, it is awful

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juana_...A9s_de_la_Cruz

Thank you for the translated snippet! Back to Sor Juana - she was a remarkable person and should be praised on high. Prolly would have been burned at the stake in Spain. Enjoyed "To Her Portrait"... http://www.poemhunter.com/sor-juana-...la-cruz/poems/

Going to go with a "C" name...

Charles Baudelaire

You´re right. And Mexico in the 18th Century must have been very provincial
'Tis death, tis dust, tis shadow, yea, 'tis nought.' if I remember rightly from University days this is a typical barock ending.

Bernhard Shaw