06.07.2009, 03:54 PM | #21 |
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BLAKE
Jorge Luis Borges Tennyson Edward Gorey Chrétien de Troyes
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06.07.2009, 07:50 PM | #22 |
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John Milton for his "Paradise Lost".
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06.07.2009, 07:53 PM | #23 |
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Oh and Langston Hughes
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06.08.2009, 05:19 PM | #24 |
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bukowski
plath sexton &up and coming... roberto bolano.
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06.08.2009, 05:59 PM | #25 |
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jim morrison?
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06.08.2009, 10:37 PM | #26 |
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Walt Whitman (I actually have some first editions of his, and I don't collect anything these days)
Steven Jesse Bernstein (who was a very nice man as well as brilliant writer) Sylvia Plath Alan Ginsberg Charles Bukowski Gregory Corso Gil Scott Heron Amri Baraka Anne Waldman Edgar Allen Poe T.S. Eliot Walter de la Mare Alfred Noyes |
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06.08.2009, 10:57 PM | #27 | |
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liar. i know as a matter of fact that your favorite poem is 001011110010101111 by 1001010100 it starts like this: 00001111111111111001010111111111100000000000111010 101111111000 10000111111110100001010101101111010010111000000001 111000 etc (nice rhyme there btw) |
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06.09.2009, 12:41 AM | #28 |
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Besides the obvious that has been stated...
Alice Notley Ted Berrigan James Schuyler Charles North Adrienne Rich Anne Waldman (primarily the stuff with Ginsberg) Lyn Hejinian ...John Cooper Clarke |
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06.09.2009, 09:34 AM | #30 |
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Kinda surprized nobody mentioned Sandburg. He and Bukowski are about the only poets I really care for, as I see most poetry as ego-centric bullcrap.
Not the say that my two choices aren't; they probably are even more so than a lot, but I like them.
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