Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Good living poets

I haven't gotten through the list yet, but what I've read is pretty good. You might like it. Reading poems always makes me want to write some. We'll see if it takes. :-)

Note: language caution on "America."

My thanks to Challies.com.

2 comments:

MagistraCarminum said...

Carolyn,
You might be interested in this response:
http://bibchr.blogspot.com/
and the counter response:
http://twentytwowords.com/2008/04/09/a-basic-rule-of-discourse-you-ought-to-at-least-think-you-%e2%80%9cget-it%e2%80%9d-before-you-condemn-it/
:-)
Chris

Pinon Coffee said...

I have long maintained that instant messenger is a good thing for literature overall because it gets people used to the fact that short lines do not a great poem make. :-)

Nevertheless, I liked the "nous" poem. More generally, I won't ditch free verse as a form altogether. I merely point out that it's incredibly hard to do well... I can't.

T.S. Eliot did free verse, and did it well. Chesteton mocked free verse, and mocked it well. I adore this. :-)

http://francesblogg.blogspot.com/2006/02/gkc-to-modern-poet.html