Poetry for You and Me

[yggdrasil_]

Mid-winter evening,
alone at a sushi bar-
just me and this eel

- Billy Collins

It’s important, I feel, to have a favorite poet. It’s adds that important veneer of intellectual sophistication: I don’t just read poetry, I have a taste in poetry! None of that first-come-first-served bring-me-whatever-they’ve-got-

Comments

[ijon]

I remember enjoying a few Billy Collins poems, years ago. If you'd like to try a Hebrew poet, probably my favorite living Israeli poet is Aryeh Sivan. Give his work a shot.