Poetry Bookclub 3

Ok, Quasi asked me to help him out here. Let's get the next poet to be read selected. Here is a listof the nominated potential poets. The way we did it last time I think was a good method. We each select three poets; a first place selection merits three points, second place selection two points, and third place one point. We'll add up the points and the highest of course will be the poet nominated. Here is the list:

Philip Larkin
Alan Ginsberg
Medbh McGuckian
Elizabeth Bishop
Earle Birney
Ann Herbert
Ali Ahmad Said Asbar (Adunk)
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Ann Carson
Boris Pasternak
Seamus Heaney
Thom Gun

Ok, voting will end in two weeks from today, January 9th.

link to Poetry Bookclub 2
http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=37623

I've never done this before, but I figured I might give it a go. My votes:

1) Boris Pasternak
2) Ali Ahmad Said Asbar
3) Alan Ginsberg

1. Philip Larkin
2. Elizabeth Bishop
3. Seamus Heaney

1. Pasternak

2. Heaney

3. Larkin

Although translation both adds and detracts from the essence of a poem, I'll have to include Pasternak in this group. And Virgil, regarding the math...I can't imagine why I didn't simplify it in this way. 1. Bishop 2. McGuckian 3. Pasternak

1.Rilke
2.Pasternak
3.Heaney

1. Pasternak
2. Heaney
3. Bishop

Oh Quasi, I just couldn't remember your voting scheme and I didn't want to try to find it, and so I came up with whatever popped into my head.

1. Bishop
2. Moore
3. Heaney

Hebert
Birney
Adunis

Sorry I have been away guys - I am in Israel right now and internet access is scarce.

How do you join this bookclub?

Anyone can just come in and coment on whatever poem and poets we happen to be discussing. You can join just be jumping into the discussion. Right now we are voting for who to do next so you can add in your own vote if you would like to partake.

Oh ok. If so here are my vote:

Pasternak
Ginsberg
Adunk

Ok, as the vote now stands, we have the following:

Pasternak 15
Bishop 9
Heaney 7
Larkin 4
Adunis 4
Ginsberg 3
Herbert 3
McGukian 2
Birney 2

Mortalterror voted for Rilke who wasn't nominated. We can include him or have Mortal vote again.

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Originally Posted by Dori

I've never done this before, but I figured I might give it a go. My votes:

1) Boris Pasternak

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If I remember correctly, isn't this the author of Doctor Zhivago? And if it is really so, I second this nomination.

Yes... Pasternak is the author of Doctor Zhivago... but he is far more known is Russia as their greatest poet of the Modern era. His book, My Sister-Life, has been described as holding a status such as that held by Harmonium and The Wasteland. Personally, I have found that the closest comparison I can find to Pasternak's poetry (obviously based upon translations) is with the poetry of Rilke. Perhaps this should not be surprising considering that Rilke was an influential figure upon Pasternak. Certainly a worthy poet.