[lbo-talk] RE: Poets I don't know...

John K. Taber jktaber at charter.net
Fri Jan 21 15:19:22 PST 2005


Joanna bujes wrote asking about contemporary poets:

Excuse me if I'm late or repeat suggestions. My machine has been down for a few days.

1. Constantine Cavafy, which you mentioned. 2. Wyslawa Szymborska, absolutely a marvel. 3. Nizim Hikmet. 4. Billy Collins, pure fun! One of his poems concerns his students strapping an assigned poem to a chair and beating a meaning out it, maybe a poem by Emily Dickinson. You have to hear him read his poems.

Many many more.

John



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