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My 60 Favourite Poems
(in no particular order)
1) Richard Siken, 'A Primer For the Small Weird Loves' / 'Scheherazade'; 2) John Ashbery, 'The Improvement' / 'A Wave'; 3) Walt Whitman, 'Native Moments' / 'Leaves of Grass'; 4) Allen Ginsberg, 'A Supermarket in California'; 5) Dennis Cooper, 'There' / 'Teen Idol'; 6) Jerome Sala, ‘My One and Only’; 7) Harryette Mullen, ‘We Are Not Responsible’ / ‘Sleeping with the Dictionary'; 8) Jeffrey McDaniel, ‘The Quiet World’; 9) Michael Ondaatje, ‘The Time Around Scars’; 10) Neil Gaiman, ‘Hostess’
11) E.E. Cummings, ‘Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond’; 12) Louise Glück, ‘The Garden’; 13) Kenward Elmslie, ‘Girl Machine’; 14) Ai, ‘Interview with a Policeman’; 15) Sylvia Plath, ‘Lady Lazarus’ / 'Daddy'; 16) Robert Creeley, ‘Bresson’s Movies’; 17) Robert Lowell, ‘Skunk Hour’; 18) Paige Poe, ‘The Rolling Stones Catch the Indian Pacific at Perth’; 19) Bill Knott, ‘The Misunderstanding’; 20) Gjertrud Schnackenberg, ‘Darwin in 1881’
21) Stephen Crane, ‘In the Desert’; 'A Man Said To The Universe'; 22) Alfred Yuson, ‘Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipina Maids’; 23) Charles Bukowski, ‘Beerbottle’; 24) Hal Sirowitz, ‘No More Birthdays’; 25) David Lehman, ‘The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke’; 26) Josh Feola, ‘Command Psychology’; 27) Bob Perelman, ‘Primer’; 28) Frank O’Hara, ‘How To Get There’; 29) Kate Lilley, ‘Screen’; 30) Emily Dickinson, ‘We Grow Accustomed to the Dark’
31) Ezra Pound, ‘The Garret’; 32) Carl Sandburg, ‘Grass’; 33) Pamela Mordecai, ‘Tell Me’; 34) D.A. Powell, ‘[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]’; 35) John Donne, ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’; 36) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘A Coney Island of the Mind'; 37) Rita Dove, 'DayStar'; 38) Paul Celan, ‘With a Variable Key’ / ‘So Many Constellations’; 39) William Carlos Williams, ‘Light-Hearted Author' / 'Overture to A Dance of Locomotives'; 40) Josh Humphrey, ‘A Poem About Al Capone’s Wife’
41) Lyn Hejinian, ‘Eleven Eyes’; 42) Eleni Sikelianos, ‘A Carnet for the Loved Love’ / ‘The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls’; 43) Eleanor Wilner, ‘High Noon at Los Alamos’; 44) Kevin Killian, ‘Deep Red’; 45) Ted Berrigan, ‘The Sonnets’; 46) John Wieners, ‘A Poem for Painters’; 47) André Breton, 'Always For The First Time'; 48) Wayne Koestenbaum, ‘History of Boys’; 49) James Tate, ‘Read the Great Poets’; 50) Derek Walcott, ‘Love After Love’
PS. In drawing up this list, I happened to store most of these poems on my computer in a word document for later reference. As such, if any of you would like to read any (or all) of the poems I've listed here, you are more than welcome to the full-text copy of my compilation. Just leave me a comment and your e-mail address and I'll be sure to send it to along to you within the next few days. Cheers --- Dave
(in no particular order)
1) Richard Siken, 'A Primer For the Small Weird Loves' / 'Scheherazade'; 2) John Ashbery, 'The Improvement' / 'A Wave'; 3) Walt Whitman, 'Native Moments' / 'Leaves of Grass'; 4) Allen Ginsberg, 'A Supermarket in California'; 5) Dennis Cooper, 'There' / 'Teen Idol'; 6) Jerome Sala, ‘My One and Only’; 7) Harryette Mullen, ‘We Are Not Responsible’ / ‘Sleeping with the Dictionary'; 8) Jeffrey McDaniel, ‘The Quiet World’; 9) Michael Ondaatje, ‘The Time Around Scars’; 10) Neil Gaiman, ‘Hostess’
11) E.E. Cummings, ‘Somewhere I Have Never Travelled, Gladly Beyond’; 12) Louise Glück, ‘The Garden’; 13) Kenward Elmslie, ‘Girl Machine’; 14) Ai, ‘Interview with a Policeman’; 15) Sylvia Plath, ‘Lady Lazarus’ / 'Daddy'; 16) Robert Creeley, ‘Bresson’s Movies’; 17) Robert Lowell, ‘Skunk Hour’; 18) Paige Poe, ‘The Rolling Stones Catch the Indian Pacific at Perth’; 19) Bill Knott, ‘The Misunderstanding’; 20) Gjertrud Schnackenberg, ‘Darwin in 1881’
21) Stephen Crane, ‘In the Desert’; 'A Man Said To The Universe'; 22) Alfred Yuson, ‘Andy Warhol Speaks to His Two Filipina Maids’; 23) Charles Bukowski, ‘Beerbottle’; 24) Hal Sirowitz, ‘No More Birthdays’; 25) David Lehman, ‘The Difference Between Pepsi and Coke’; 26) Josh Feola, ‘Command Psychology’; 27) Bob Perelman, ‘Primer’; 28) Frank O’Hara, ‘How To Get There’; 29) Kate Lilley, ‘Screen’; 30) Emily Dickinson, ‘We Grow Accustomed to the Dark’
31) Ezra Pound, ‘The Garret’; 32) Carl Sandburg, ‘Grass’; 33) Pamela Mordecai, ‘Tell Me’; 34) D.A. Powell, ‘[listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]’; 35) John Donne, ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’; 36) Lawrence Ferlinghetti, ‘A Coney Island of the Mind'; 37) Rita Dove, 'DayStar'; 38) Paul Celan, ‘With a Variable Key’ / ‘So Many Constellations’; 39) William Carlos Williams, ‘Light-Hearted Author' / 'Overture to A Dance of Locomotives'; 40) Josh Humphrey, ‘A Poem About Al Capone’s Wife’
41) Lyn Hejinian, ‘Eleven Eyes’; 42) Eleni Sikelianos, ‘A Carnet for the Loved Love’ / ‘The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls’; 43) Eleanor Wilner, ‘High Noon at Los Alamos’; 44) Kevin Killian, ‘Deep Red’; 45) Ted Berrigan, ‘The Sonnets’; 46) John Wieners, ‘A Poem for Painters’; 47) André Breton, 'Always For The First Time'; 48) Wayne Koestenbaum, ‘History of Boys’; 49) James Tate, ‘Read the Great Poets’; 50) Derek Walcott, ‘Love After Love’
PS. In drawing up this list, I happened to store most of these poems on my computer in a word document for later reference. As such, if any of you would like to read any (or all) of the poems I've listed here, you are more than welcome to the full-text copy of my compilation. Just leave me a comment and your e-mail address and I'll be sure to send it to along to you within the next few days. Cheers --- Dave