BJH-Enjoyed the interview
HJ-Liked both poems of poem hunter
Joanna Baillie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Baillie
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-rainbow-2/
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BJH-Enjoyed the interview
HJ-Liked both poems of poem hunter
Joanna Baillie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Baillie
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-rainbow-2/
JB: Beloved philanthropic dramatist/poet. "To the Rainbow": Beautiful poem especially S7: "And when its yellow lustre smil'd/O'er mountains yet untrod,/Each mother held aloft her child/To bless the bow of God."
Bob Holman... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Holman
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/drea...chinese-poems/
BH-Sensibility and iniciative. The poem implies as much as it tells.
A preciosity: KHONSAY: Poem of Many Tongues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4LVjx8dmnc
Hubert Church
https://www.poemhunter.com/hubert-church/biography/
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-in-new-zealand/
Khonsay: Very interesting project. Read... http://www.khonsay.com/read/ ... in depth... http://www.khonsay.com/poets/
HC: New Zealander poet - "omnivorous reader"; S1 my favorite from the poem Spring In New Zealand: "Thou wilt come with suddenness, /Like a gull between the waves, /Or a snowdrop that doth press /Through the white shroud on the graves; /Like a love too long withheld, /That at last has over-welled."
Charlotte Turner Smith
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Turner_Smith
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-the-snowdrop/
Khonsay-Glad you poste these links. The video is beautiful, but so one can read the text as a whole unit.
CS- Another incredible woman-And her story reminded me of the Dickens novel´s Little Dorrit and Bleak House.
Sterling Allen Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Allen_Brown
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/slim-greer-in-hell/
SAB: Brilliant man... must have been too busy to pursue his doctorate: "but several colleges he attended gave him honorary doctorates". Influenced by "folk-based culture" and music: rural themes... "treated the simple lives of poor, black, country folk with extra poignancy and dignity". The poem you selected written in the vernacular is amusing. "Southern Cop" is just too tragic/poignant and timeless.
B. Traven... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Traven
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/p2nhcr
SAB-Usualy one has to have a doctorate to lecture at the university. But he probably was so brilliant that he got honorary degrees.
B. Traven-It seems that his own story is still more interesting than his fiction. I looked him up in German. A certain Hauschild published a biography of 700 pages about Traven after intensive research. Acording to him he was born as Otto Feige in Poland as the son of a worker(1882). He got involved with the worker movement. Later he became an actor under the name of Ret Marut and edited a worker magazine, but was imprisoned suspect of spionage. 1924 he was freed and he went to Tampico (Mexico). In1926 he became a US citizen under the nameTraven Torsvan. He died 1969.
Thomas Edward Brown
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edward_Brown
http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnoteb...s/teb/p695.htm
TEB: "Manx national poet." Incredible poem: an allegory; the rhyme scheme is delightfully stilted.
Beth Gylys
http://newworldwriting.net/beth-gylys/ (I chose these over others that did not suit my sensibilities.)
BG-modernist touch. Good selection. I found some other poems by her rather crude and not so lyrical.
Gabriela Mistral
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriela_Mistral
http://www.poetrycat.com/gabriela-mistral/pine-forest
GM: Nobel prize in literature... Poet, educator; one of her students was Pablo Neruda. "Received a doctor honoris causa from Mills College, Oakland, California" as well (just 12 miles (19 km) NNW from where I attended college for a short time). Enjoyed "Pine Forest", but she was wrong in one respect for my locale: our Pine forests are dying, blighted by the Pine Borer Beetle... we've lost many on our property because the long drought made the pines susceptible to the beetles... whole groves stand dead nearby or are being cut down.
Maoilios Caimbeul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoilios_Caimbeul
From: ( http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org...ilios-caimbeul )
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org...s/rud-thachair
GM-I am sorry for the Californian pines, but there is not knowing which landscape she had in mind, when she wrote the poem.
MC-Loved his way of combining landscape and feelings http://maoilioscaimbeul.co.uk
Charlotte Forten Grimké
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...n-grimkae#poet
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wordsworth-8/
GM: Yes, GM's Pines are likely an idealization; reminiscent of the Ents of J.R.R. Tolkien as they walk: Perhaps the night will watch closer now that weevil is nigh.
MC: The landscapes do lend themselves to that extra bit of imagery lacking in the mind's eye that helps one with a sense of place. Loved this: "O soft idols of the pillow!
I take my leave of you
joyfully, with doubt, with tears,
because I have been wrong for so long,
for the spendthrift days,
for the warm, deceitful bedcovers.
O, all-seeing heart!
O, deceiving, soiled heart
you are killed with sacrifices,
flayed by the knife of the morning!"
CFG: Abolitionist/Educator: Woman of privilege; pre- and post US Civil War poet. More the classical poet in the poem you offered than I would have imagined, especially after reading Sterling Allen Brown's poems recently.
Gertrude Stein
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/res...s/detail/49202
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/res...il/49202#guide
GS-Extraordinary cultural activity. The explanation of the poem you added was very
helpful, for my first impression was, that it might be ironic.
Samuel Garth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Garth
https://becker.wustl.edu/about/news/...ths-dispensary
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/re...84B45AFC4.html (download necessary)
SG: 17/18th century physician and poet; zealous Whig and wig. His "The Dispensary" has 6-cantos/150+ pgs with stylized "s's" about a dispute between physicians and apothecaries... sideloaded to my Kindle. Another Garth (with Wayne): https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-l.../2847170?snl=1
George Starbuck... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Starbuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9xqZcyfgCg
docs up to date :)
SG-Lol! I was interested in the unusual subject for an epic poem, but didn´t know that it was that long. 150+ pages is a bit much. Link to other Garth didn´t open.
GS-Very original poem very well performed.
Thank you for updating all the docs :)
Sadakichi Hartmann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadakichi_Hartmann
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tanka-18/
https://archive.org/details/driftingflowers00hartgoog
SH: Great find. Escaped the horrors of American incarceration (deux). wiki: "An important early participant in modernism, Hartmann was a friend of such diverse figures as Walt Whitman, Stéphane Mallarmé and Ezra Pound." Delicate voice in his poetry... love it.
Huang Xiang
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang_Xiang
https://www.atanet.org/publications/...es/page_54.pdf
HX-Loved His poems. I still remember the conflicts on the Tiananmen Square and the hardness of the regimen.
Xul Solar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xul_Solar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cyDBC6g7-M
(Having to log out and then in again when I am longer on LItNet. Else I can´t post)
re: log in... odd. XS: Quite eclectic in his endeavors; wonderful sense of composition - to my untrained eye quite surreal. Some auction prices: http://www.invaluable.com/artist/sol...uction-prices/ and http://artist.christies.com/Alejandr...ar--45143.aspx
Susanna Rowson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanna_Rowson
https://archive.org/stream/memoirsus...e/n91/mode/2up
Re re login:Only way seems to be keeping sawing longer texts while writing them or writing them on word and then pasting.
XS-Not trained either but love his colourful paintings and iconographic mixtures.Was Introduced to him by Prof. Jorge Schwartz (Schwartz, Jorge. "Let the Stars Compose Syllables: Xul and Neo-Creole." Xul Solar: Visiones Y Revelaciones. Buenos Aires: Malba – Coleccion Costantini, 2005. 200–208).
SR-Besides being an acomplished poet a resourceful woman."After William's hardware business failed and his father died in 1791, he and Susanna took in his orphaned sister Charlotte Rowson and they all turned to acting". My idea of a resilient family.
Robert Creeley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Creeley
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/gnomic-verses/
Do you keep the " Remember Me? " box always checked ? (under the sign in). RC: A beloved poet who would reach out and be supportive to others. "an innovative poet"... "form is never more than an extension of content," for his poems were often written in couplet, triplet, and quatrain stanzas that break into and out of rhyme as happenstance appears to dictate." His poem a jumble of quatrains and single word "breaks" and form changes and alliterative playfulness and here and there a rhyme.
Charlotte Lennox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Lennox
https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/song-916
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/
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-...as-in-newgate/
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...ll/poems/19949
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...rchilochus.asp
A-Interesting personality but given to invectives.
Arna Bontemps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arna_Bontemps
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps...ionalpoems.htm
AB: Moved to NY during the Harlem Renaissance, staying until the Depression... friend of Langston Hughes. An interpretation of Reconnaissance... http://cullenshr.blogspot.com/2012/0...mps-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
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)
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/
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/poe...addonizio#poet
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/41855
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/poe...oets/detail/ai
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...s/detail/42542
Ai
Interesting background. Loved the epic poem;
The other side of the story.Quote:
"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"
Arthur Bayldon
http://www.oldqldpoetry.com/index.php/arthur-bayldon
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sea-7/
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/poe...tail/bob-hicok
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=39244
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/poe...hilaire-belloc
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sara...dge-by-a-bull/
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-h...little-garden/
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/2016/1...onald-winkler/
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/
NG-Italian descendence. Activism. Cute poem.Animal preservation
Guillaume Apollinaire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire
http://www.poetryintranslation.com/P...or_Toc24461590
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
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/poe...louis-macneice
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poe...ontentId=22603
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.c..._ANTHOLOGY.pdf
pg 96:
pg 97:Quote:
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.
Quote:
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.