Poetry

[Andrew McIntosh]

A friend sent me a tape of his readings once. Sounded almost like comedy, in his delivery. Sadly I don't have the tape any more. I seem to recall a lot of "then she said...so then I said...so then she said...".

[heretogo]

Yeah, Bukowski was probably the first poet I truly enjoyed as a youngster. Straightforward, hard-hitting, no-bullshit stuff. But after a while it got a bit repetitive, at that time I got more interested in his novels. I should maybe revisit some of that stuff, haven't done that in ages. By the way, I just noticed that www.bukowski.net has a very nice database of scanned manuscripts from him, letters and poems.

[Plague Haus]

Yea, he can get very repetitive for sure and I'll admit preferring his prose to the poetry, but a lot of his poetry reads like prose. I definitely prefer the earlier stuff, when he was young and hungry. I've bought a few of his posthumous anthologies and they just aren't that great. One I remember reading was from pages found in boxes stuffed in a closet. If the man thought they weren't worthy, why print them? And the letters collection? Talk about flogging a dead horse.

[Ashley Choke]

This pretty much does it for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVGoY9gom50

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJDV9z8XvEo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FihYsCy9x8A&feature=related

I love how he totally nails modern society

As far as i remember there exist a better more monotonous recording that ends up sounding almost psychedelic

[Nihil Congregation]

Check Fernando Pessoa, one my of my favourites writters

I'll do a more complete post after work.

[narcolepsia]

fernando pessoa is definitely worth checking out. one of the best in a land of poets.

other portuguese worth checking out include cruzeiro seixas, mário cesariny, herberto hélder and many more

most of my favourites fit somehow in the portuguese surrealism movement in literature and painting

not sure if any of these are translated though

top reference portuguese publishing house for national and foreign poetry here,

http://www.assirio.pt/

http://assirioealvim.blogspot.com/

[MT]

I will check out those Finnish poets mentioned in this topic, seemed very interesting. Hate to say the same thing, but I also find Pessoa and Bukowski very inspiring poets. I first read Bukowski novels, but the poems really blew my mind. I like decadent poetry quite a lot, Paul Verlaine for example is a great pick. Francois Villon is also a great peot from France. Mostly middle age ballads, but yet so damn in your face.

[Andrew McIntosh]

http://dillsnapcogitation.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/aleister-crowleys-white-stains-seminal-hidden-poetry/

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[Reprobate]

I've loved reading and writing poetry for a long time. It hasn't been updated for a while, but I used to post all of my writing here (http://steffanrost.blogspot.com)  Use a lot of it for spoken word things and what not, in recordings and live.

Big fan of Bukowski, Pasolini, Swinburne, and Wes Eisold. Also dig some of the beat stuff. Robert Browning is amazing too, check out Porphyria's Lover. http://www.bartleby.com/101/720.html

[HONOR_IS_KING!]

When it comes to poetry, of course my favorite is anything by Khalil Gibran.

Also, Reprobate, I would agree with you fully on Wes Eisold, even his lyrics are more poetic if anything.


I gotta say that Mr. Vilk kills it with the use of "And Soft Rains Will Come" on Every Knee Shall Bow. Incredible way to finish that massive disc.

[Reprobate]

Yeah, I'd have to say it's because of him and American Nightmare and his Deathbeds book that I even really got into poetry. And Cold Cave is amazing. Fuck the haters.

I've heard some Nyodene D. I really dig it. I like the CMI sound and the lyrics are great.

[Jordan]

Couldn't really live without Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Lautreamont. There are plenty of other poets who's work I admire but those are the (horribly stereotypical) three.