name association game

LM-My favourite movie:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8qck07SJs

Elizabeth Taylor (novelist)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizab...lor_(novelist)

duplicate (bad connection)

LM: Interesting movie clip. I'll have to look the movie up on Amazon/ilk. ET: Many "The New Yorker" offerings I might peruse.

Tennessee Williams... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

One of my favorite playwrights!

Wilhelm Röntgen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen

WR: Too transparent, though he has a nice glow. :)

Robert Shaw... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert...British_actor)

WR- Transparency is no drawback in this case!:)


Siegfried Sasson
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...gfried-sassoon

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/today-3/

I love "Today"; these line especially:
"Of heavenly peace. Oh take me to yourselves,
Earth, sky, and spirit! Let me stand within
The circle of your transience, that my voice
May thrill the lonely silences with song"
I'll have to look into "Sequences": "the poems in Sequences constitute some of the most impressive religious poetry of this century." .

Sarah Kirsch... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Kirsch

https://peterlachnewinsky.wordpress....ch-four-poems/

SK- Loved her. Am going to look her up in German, when my eyes allow it.


Kit Wright

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

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/ho...-east-was-lost

KW: Quite the wit.

William McGonagall... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/...-lass-o-dundee

:lol::bawling:
Today he would be promoted. Glad you found him!

Makhosazana Xaba

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/sh...e-said-we-said

Tragic poem on a few levels.

Xie Daoyun... https://books.google.com/books?id=u7...flakes&f=false

XD Gg link didn´t open.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xie_Daoyun

Dario Fo

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

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/a.../dario_fo.html

DF: "The Nobel Prize Twitter feed marked Fo's death, news of which came on the same day as the year's winner for literature, Bob Dylan was announced." - Most apropos. I like this quote: "Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible."

My link: most odd; should be page 360-36X or so of a Google Books: Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E ... by Lily Xiao Hong Lee, A. D. Stefanowska, Sue Wiles

Franz Wright... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Wright

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/16/ar...ies-at-62.html

DF-Another of the brave 20th Century man gone.
Gg-Told me I had exceeded my number of pages when I tried to read the link.
FW-Going to have a look at his poetry later.

Walter de la Mare

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

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-mother-bird/

WdlM: Quite eclectic in his literary endeavors. He passed on where my Mother was born. I didn't realize Alfred, Lord Tennyson had roots in Twickenham also. Lovely poem.

Maxine Kumin... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Kumin

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps...nlinepoems.htm

MK-Impressive poem. Contemporaneam poetry.

Kusturica

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmccE4uWwRg

EK... where does he find the time ?

Kathryn Bigelow... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Bigelow

EK- His making off film. I like his gypsy culture!
KB-A woman director is not so usual

Bettina Edelberg
http://friendsofborges.is/Betina/EN/bio.html

I don't speak Spanish so the .wma wasn't helpful. I tried searching for more information online but information is sparse other than your link. She seems too important not to have a better internet presence

Elisabeth Langgässer... http://www.encyclopedia.com/women/en...beth-1899-1950

http://www.dialoginternational.com/d...ry-month-.html

BE-I was hoping you read Spanish, because the many Spanish geographical references in California.
EL- Had never heard about her, though I know other authors from the same generation.Very touching life and poem. Appreciated specially that you posted it in German. Like other people in her particular condition, she believed that it was possible to live and raise a family in Nazi Germany.Here is a bilingual version of the poem: http://drifting-lines.blogspot.com.b...elizabeth.html

Louise Labé

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lab%C3%A9

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-viii-23/ (seems to be her most famous poem)

LL perhaps a nearly three century precursor to George Sand. Sonnet Viii quite a poem of point/counterpoint.............. Good night !

Ludwig Tieck... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Tieck

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/zeit-2/

Google translation:

Time

Thus she walks in the same circle,
The time, according to their old way,
On their way deaf and blind.
The unencumbered human child
Expecting the next moment
An unhappy strange new happiness.
The sun goes and returns,
When the moon comes down and the night falls,
The hours down the weeks,
The weeks bring the seasons.
From the outside nothing ever again.

LT-Beautiful poem! Also one of the celebrated translators of the Shakespeare plays into German.

Therese Broderick (sorry)

http://www.albanypoets.com/category/...ese-broderick/

http://www.2river.org/2RView/11_4/poems/broderick.html

TB: Nice poems. Leaving "her thin, receding icicle." instead of hope in the jar is curious.

Booth Tarkington... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_Tarkington

Interesting found. Never heard of him. Maybe outshaded by Faulkner and Updike

Tracy K. Smith

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../tracy-k-smith

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/55519

TS... nice initials ! 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry... Whoa, quite the accomplishment. Interesting use of a meme as the title of her poem... Beautiful poetics; very heavy/dense poem. Deserves more study.

Susan Griffin... https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../susan-griffin

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/50104

Tried to improve a bit the Gg translation of Ludwig Tieck´s poem:

Time
Thus time repeats the eternal circle,
According to its old ways,
On its path, deaf and blind,
The unencumbered human child
Expecting each moment
The unhoped for bout of happiness.
The sun wanishes and returns,
The moon rises and the night falls,
The hours pursue the weeks,
The weeks bring the seasons.
From the outside nothing ever changes.

SG-Very contemporanean, intriguing poem

Susan Howe (Sorry my bad, should be "G" but I liked her)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Howe

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/43253

LT: The poem does scan better with your translation. I'm interested in SH's thoughts on Emily Dickinson: "The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems" (2013) and My Emily Dickinson (1985); SH's poem is a surreal treat.

Harry Martinson... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Martinson

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_priz...poems-8-e.html

Tks.
Mel Maia

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

Child star of one of the soap operas you watch ?

Marlo Thomas... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlo_Thomas

http://www.simonandschuster.com/auth...homas/17352675

MM-Yes.
MT-Strong personality.

Truman Capote

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

TC: I didn't really know much about TC till I read his wikipedia article. Brilliant yet tortured he seems.

Charles Ludlam... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ludlam

Never read TC.
CL- Interesting personality.Parodist of other playwriters.

Luciano Pavarotti

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

LP... bigger than life.

Pat Schneider... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Schneider

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/48450

Loved that comparison with the worm!

Simone Weil

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

SW: Amazing. Incredibly influential though short lived. She evidently had high regard for Lawrence of Arabia, something I share with her: Apex///Epical apex/O, Lawrence... Who dared to test/The mire of ages///12/22/2004

William Blake... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

https://www.shortpoems.org/poets/william-blake/

WB- I specially liked the animal poems:
"Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

Blaise Cendrars

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

https://qarrtsiluni.com/2011/04/14/t...aise-cendrars/

BC: re: his nom de plume: "To write is to be burned alive, but it is also to be reborn from one's ashes". His two poems show a minimalist's touch.

Carol Ann Duffy... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Ann_Duffy

CD-http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-light-gatherer/

Derek Wallcot

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe.../derek-walcott

Double post

CD: beautiful poem. DW: enjoyed "The day, with all its pain ahead, is yours" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ssue=5&page=29

William Jay Smith... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jay_Smith

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-garden-86/


A furious rainy day in Garden Valley... Time for sleep !