Poesy Book club

[stlukesguild]

Rilke? I was somehow within the delusion that ''he'' was a 'she'...

Must of been that Maria thing.

George Sand... not a guy.

[mortalterror]

Rilke? I was somehow within the delusion that ''he'' was a 'she'...

Must of been that Maria thing.

A friend of mine asked me that when he saw me reading Rilke in high school and I was like "No man, everybody in Europe is named Mary, whether they're boys or girls. It's a Catholic thing. Watch this." And I went into the next room with him to were his brother had just brought his new Scandinavian girlfriend (whom I hadn't met) and said "Hey, what's your name?" "Mary." "There, I told you."

[LitNetIsGreat]

Legge‘s ok translation is online, Walley's translation with a forward by Stephen Owen is the ideal translation though.

Thanks. That's some book 1100+ pages!

Actually, as a second could I also throw in Dylan Thomas? I've just got a selection of short stories by him so I wouldn't mind looking at his poetry as well. Official website here if anyone is interested, thanks:
http://www.dylanthomas.com/index.cfm?articleid=19699

[JBI]

Thanks. That's some book 1100+ pages!

Actually, as a second could I also throw in Dylan Thomas? I've just got a selection of short stories by him so I wouldn't mind looking at his poetry as well. Official website here if anyone is interested, thanks:
http://www.dylanthomas.com/index.cfm?articleid=19699

No it isn't - Legge's contains all the Confucian classics - there are only 300 odd poems, almost all of them less than a page each.

[LitNetIsGreat]

No it isn't - Legge's contains all the Confucian classics - there are only 300 odd poems, almost all of them less than a page each.

Oh, I see, I see. That book sounds like a good investment then.

[stlukesguild]

1. Octavio Paz- Sunstone
2. W.S. Merwin- Shadow of Sirius
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini- Collected Poems
4. Ranier Maria Rilke- (what volume? New Poems, Uncollected Poems, etc...?)
5. The Chinese Book of Songs
6. The Psalms
7. Ovid's Metamorphoses
8. Wallace Stevens- Harmonium
9. Three Hundred Tang Poems
10. Holderlin- Selected Poems
11. Nerval- Selected Poems
12. Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems

[YesNo]

I found a book of poems by Carlos Cortez, de KANSAS a CALIFAS & back to CHICAGO, while browsing through the local library today. After reading it, I thought it was worth checking out to re-read at home.

So something by Cortez would be my choice.

Here is a web site with some of his work: http://www.rebelgraphics.org/carloscortez.html

[quasimodo1]

Let me add James L. Dickey to this group.

[mortalterror]

I recently fell in love with the poems of Cavafy. I wouldn't mind reading those again.

[stlukesguild]

1. Octavio Paz- Sunstone
2. W.S. Merwin- Shadow of Sirius
3. Pier Paolo Pasolini- Collected Poems
4. Ranier Maria Rilke- (what volume? New Poems, Uncollected Poems, etc...?)
5. The Chinese Book of Songs
6. The Psalms
7. Ovid's Metamorphoses
8. Wallace Stevens- Harmonium
9. Three Hundred Tang Poems
10. Holderlin- Selected Poems
11. Nerval- Selected Poems
12. Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems
13. Carlos Cortez
14. James L. Dickey
15. Constantine P. Cavafy

[JBI]

how are we doing this poll? No voting for your own?

[Alexander III]

Ok nomination time over. I will put up a poll in the morning. AS for how to do it, I was thinking everyone get's 3 votes and the only rule is that you cannot vote for the books you nominated. Does that sound fine?

[Sano]

Sounds ok to me. Can't wait fot the poll!

[JBI]

That's fine, nobody cheat