Poetry

[leafofgrass]

As I sit here typing from the bowels of Levinas (god, I can't wait for this semester to be over!!!), I became bored. So bored that I checked up on livejournal. livingfossil (hey, you've been getting some press in my journa lately, eh?) asked for reading suggestions and I made some. The point here is that he asked about poetry, and I like peotry a lot even

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[picarosado]

I usually read poetry to ease my boredom and take a breather from books. I love the classics but when it comes to modern poetry, I feel it is best to write about the prosaic details in life. My guilty pleasure for two years now is Leonard Cohen. I also love:

Yeats (I love the cyclical theory of history)
Eliot (classic)
Nabakov (like reading a chess game and for the obvious reason that he is my favorite author)
Auden (only poet to make me cry)
E.B. Browning (I love her political poems. She is a very romantic poet, but I truly do believe that her romantic poems are subpar when you read about her perspective on papal dipolmacy)
Ovid (He gave great advice on how to be a good kisser When you're 13 and an avid bookwork trying to meet boys, you turn to someone you can trust. :)

[leafofgrass]

Musicians can be poets as well, it just isn't normally the case. If you haven't heard him yet, Iron and Wine is an incredible poet/songwriter. I recommend him as such highly.

[picarosado]

Speaking of musicians, have you heard the new Stephen Malkmus album "Face the Truth?"

[leafofgrass]

I have not, but being a Pavement fan, I'm interested. I didn't like his first solo album: it was a little too pop-y. I liked the Spiral Stairs spin-off "Preston School of Industry" better, but it was obvious that they were just going to do the Pavement thing indefinitely and that Malkmus was a big loss. I'll give it a listen, though. Thanks for the tip!

Face the Truth

[picarosado]

Truthfully, his current album is really poppy. You might not like it. Just so you know.