Poetry - do you read it

[Ants In Your Pants]

I love poetry and i recently ordered http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Soul-Personal-Reflections-McGarity/dp/061559476X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328502828&sr=8-1
I've met the author and she let me read her book! her poetry is really good <3 and the second half of the book is awesome smile what kind of poetry books/authors do you guys like?

[The Sycamore Lady]

I really like naturalism poetry, like Gerard Manley Hopkins, or some of Stanley Plumley's work.

Sometimes I also enjoy more experimental things like Tao Lin or Ken Irby. Mostly just Ken Irby's "I Met the Angel Sus," which I read almost daily for four years and still don't quite understand. But I like it.

My favorite poet is Leanne O'Sullivan, who is a young Irish poet, but her words are so alive and so full of image and touch and emotion. They strike me like nothing else. My favorite volume of hers is "Cailleach: The Hag of Beara". She's not too well known outside of Ireland, but if you like simple, dense, poetry about relating to other people or one's own land, it's stunning.

[Dreams in moonlight]

I love Emily Dickinson. She was amazing. I also like some of Edgar Allan Poe's and William Blake's works.

[Galad Aglaron]

Dorothy Parker is my favourite poet, but I also quite like Tennyson.

[Nikolai Petrov]

T.S.Eliot

[smartyOtaku64]

I like more of Edgar Allan Poe's work.

[Born Backwards]

Lord Byron

[Feminist Barbie]

I don't normally read poems but I read a book called Hurricane Dancers, it was done entirely in poem. Every page, I think, was a poem and part of the over-all story. It was awesome!

[Poon Tang Head]

Sappho. A little Edgar Allen Poe and Robert E. Howard and some Japanese.

[Super 9-Volt]

I can't get into poetry. They simply don't make any sense to me whatsoever. cat_emo I don't understand how people can analyze it and come up with different things from them.

[Rain on your Back]

Phillip Larkin is a very dark, appropriate author of the twentieth century.
Emily Dickinson is very interesting too...

[Green_crayon42]

I memorize it. blaugh

[Infinity Outlaw]

The world is not beautiful

I like William Blake pretty well. I had a book of his poems when I was younger and loved reading them. Too bad I don't think I've got it anymore. It was really a good selection and had some lovely illustrations to go with it. I was and still am in love with "The Tyger". Now I really want to go find a copy of that book.

Other than that most of the poetry I've read and enjoyed has been Greek and Roman. (Yay for majoring in the Classics!) The epic poems of course are quite enjoyable, but I also like some of the shorter poets like Catullus and Martial. I found Martial particularly amusing. They're some of the few books I hung onto from college.

I remember doing a unit on poetry in high school that really created a huge aversion to poetry for me. We covered poets like Byron, Shelley, and Frost but it seems like we covered their most boring poems. It's probably enjoyable for some people, but it was not up my alley and there was pretty much no variety in the curriculum. I was stuck with navel gazing and odes to flowers. I've since found a few poems I like by them. In particular I've fallen in love with Shelley's "Ozymandias".

Therefore it is.

[oh `chaste]

I would love to understand and enjoy poetry, but I can't seem to. Maybe it's because of my poor English. I read most poetry literally, can't seem to find the beauty in the lines. So now I'm just sticking on to books sweatdrop

[LovableKitty84]

Robert Frost