Posted by paula on July 24, 2001, at 13:54:11
In reply to Re: favorite poets?, posted by Anna Laura on July 22, 2001, at 6:50:57
Thanks for all of the ideas, Anna Laura! I look forward to reading them. I, too, like Dickinson, Thomas, and Pound. And it looks like the Beats are a heavy favorite here on the board, so I'm definitely going to investigate and see what I'm missing.
Do you know the Copland settings of Dickinson? THey're wonderful.
Grazie ancora,
Paula
> A think Eugenio Montale is a milestone in italian contemporary poetry.
> Ungaretti, Quasimodo,Marinetti are important also. D' Annunzio is quite prominent also but i personally don't like it too much (too much decadent).
> A excellent but hard to decipher poet is Edoardo Sanguineti (still alive, lives in the city where i live). Pierpaolo Pasolini is good also.
> Many contemporary novel writers are poets: among them stands out Nanni Balestrini, novelist and political activist.
> He is the author of "The Invisibles", and "We want it all", novels written in a experimental manner (something close to Joyce stream of counsciousness).
> Another one is Franco Fortini (author of the essay "Extrema Ratio").
> My favourites are Emily Dickinson, Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, Arthur Rimbaud and the Beat Generation poets.
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> Good Morning - Midnight -
> I'm coming Home -
> Day - got tired of me -
> How could I - of him?
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> Sunshine was a sweet place -
> I liked to stay -
> But Morn - did' nt want me - now -
> So - Goodnight - Day!
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> I can look - cant I -
> When the East is red?
> The Hills - have a way - then -
> That puts the Heart - abroad -
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> You - are not so fair - Midnight -
> I chose - Day -
> But - please take a little Girl -
> He turned away!
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> Emily Dickinson (1862)
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