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[Quark]

I like the French poetry suggestions so far, but what about some Deutsche Lyrik? I'd like to read something of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff or Georg Trakl: two names that occasionally (but rarely) come up on LitNet.

[stlukesguild]

I would love to read Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, but I have never come across any translations of her works in English outside of a few poems in an anthology here or there. What of Holderlin?

[mayneverhave]

I would love to read Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, but I have never come across any translations of her works in English outside of a few poems in an anthology here or there. What of Holderlin?

Sounds good to me.

[JBI]

Alright; I guess we should leave this open for another day or two, then we will vote.

[Quark]

I would love to read Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, but I have never come across any translations of her works in English outside of a few poems in an anthology here or there. What of Holderlin?

Translation may be problematic. What I know Annette von Droste-Hülshoff comes from criticism, and the little bit I've read of her poetry came from this site:

http://www.lwl.org/LWL/Kultur/Droste/English/Works

You usually can find a handful of her poems (often the same ones) from sites like this, or, as you point out, anthologies. Really, all we need is four or five poems, anyway. The Book Club conversation usually slows down after the third or fourth poem.

As for Holderlin, why not?

Alright; I guess we should leave this open for another day or two, then we will vote.

I think we reached critical mass a while back. With six or seven posters you can get a pretty good discussion going. Anytime you want to start a vote is fine with me.

[Alexander III]

should we begin votations ?

[JBI]

Need to establish a rule; no voting for your own. Otherwise the thing won't go well. So rule is, you can't vote for your own nomination.

[Quark]

Can we get a full list of the nominations before we start voting?

[JBI]

Gertrude Stein "Selections"
Medbh McGuckian
Verlaine
Baudelaire
Gérard de Nerval
Stéphane Mallarmé
Fernando Pessoa
Wallace Stevens
Chinese Book of Songs (Shi Jing)
T. S. Eliot Four Quartets

And Quark, who exactly did you nominate? Little bit confused.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I'd like to join up if there is time. I'd be happy to go with several on the list so no need to nominate, unless you want some more suggestions.

[stlukesguild]

Elizabeth Bishop
Marianne Moore
Gertrude Stein
Rimbaud
Shelly
Paul Verlaine
Baudelaire
Medbh McGuckian
Fernando Pessoa
Wallace Stevens
Gerard de Nerval
Stephen Mallarme'
Chinese Book of Songs (Shi Jing)
T. S. Eliot Four Quartets
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Georg Trakl
Friederich Holderlin

[Quark]

And Quark, who exactly did you nominate? Little bit confused.

Oh, I forgot about the two nomination per person thing. Sorry, let me take down Georg Trakl. I'll just nominate Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Friederich Holderlin.

[JBI]

Oh, I forgot about the two nomination per person thing. Sorry, let me take down Georg Trakl. I'll just nominate Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and Friederich Holderlin.

I have no problem, but you must show that you can come up with an accessible volume of Droste-Hulshoff in English - I don't think many of us want to hop from anthology to anthology looking for scattered poems.

[Quark]

If it's going to cause problems, I'll stick to two poets I know we can all find: Holderlin and Trakl. If I may, then, let me post the nomination list (an edited version of stlukes):

Elizabeth Bishop
Marianne Moore
Gertrude Stein
Rimbaud
Shelly
Paul Verlaine
Baudelaire
Medbh McGuckian
Fernando Pessoa
Wallace Stevens
Gerard de Nerval
Stephen Mallarme'
Chinese Book of Songs (Shi Jing)
T. S. Eliot Four Quartets
Georg Trakl
Friederich Holderlin

Any objections?

[JBI]

Alright, put your top 5 in the order as # 1 = 5 points, #2 = 4 points, etc. No voting for your own nominations, that way everyone will have a better chance of reading something that interests them.