Do you know Thomas McGrath? Maybe the second or third best commie poet in English, counting Blake and Shelley as commies. His Letters To An Imaginary Friend is a long series of meditations on radicalism in America, but it is not preachy or didactic. He also wrote a wonderful novel, Coffin With No Handles, about labor organizing on the waterfront.
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> The new Philip Larkin, Collected Poems, ed. Anthony
> Thwaite. (There's a
> more complete version of this from 20 years ago, but
> this one presents the
> poems as Larkin did.) --CGE
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, joanna bujes wrote:
>
> > The various fragments of Cavafy that have been
> posted remind me that
> > there are poets I know but don't know.
> >
> > It's that time in my life when I need to read
> poetry.
> >
> > I would welcome suggestions from LBOsters. I have
> a Ph.D. in English
> > and have been force-marched through the canon. I
> wrote my thesis on
> > John Donne. So, forget the obvious suspects.
> >
> > So, really, I'm looking for something more
> contemporary or foreign.
> >
> > A poet's name or a particular collection....
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joanna
> >
>
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