Late Posted November 18, 2003 Report Posted November 18, 2003 Any readers of poems here? If so, what authors do you like? Quote
Jazzmoose Posted November 18, 2003 Report Posted November 18, 2003 I'm big on e.e. cummings. I enjoy reading poetry, but I'm too impatient. A good poem for me requires tons of time to dig into, and I keep wanting to turn the page. There's a big difference for me in reading a poem silently or out loud. My absolute favorite to read out loud is the portion of The Wasteland with the woman speaking...for some reason I really get off on reading that out loud with my best "Monty Python old woman" voice. Try it; it's great!! It's strange, but I love reading cummings, but not out loud. I love reading Langston Hughes out loud, but not silently. Quote
jacman Posted November 18, 2003 Report Posted November 18, 2003 Any readers of poems here? If so, what authors do you like? Basho Matsuo, Shiki Masaoka, Issa Kobayashi (haikuists) are just a few of my favs. but lately i've been involved with an internet group that occasionally writs 'Renku' which is linked Haiku that many people write together. as for traditional poetry, i dig Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Bukowski, Patti Smith et.al. Quote
ghost of miles Posted November 21, 2003 Author Report Posted November 21, 2003 Any readers of poems here? If so, what authors do you like? Dean Young (who used to live here in Bloomington), Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Rilke, Hart, Crane, & some of the radical proletarian poets of the 30's whom Alan Wald has been championing in recent years. I also like Kevin Young, a poet who now teaches here at IU. I go through phases w/poetry; haven't had one in awhile and feel another coming on. The Library of America has begun an American Poets series and will be publishing three more volumes next spring. Currently reading Alan Furst's DARK STAR. Quote
Chrome Posted November 21, 2003 Report Posted November 21, 2003 Jacman: Have you ever read "The Worst Journey in the World" by Apsley Cherry-Garrard? I love adventure/survival books, too, and this was one of the best. This guy went to Antarctica w/Scott (but wasn't on the Pole team) and was part of a group that went to collect penguin eggs ... in the dead of the Antarctic winter. This is the journey of the title. Amazing stuff. Quote
paul secor Posted November 23, 2003 Report Posted November 23, 2003 Any readers of poems here? If so, what authors do you like? Charles Reznikoff and Gilbert Sorrentino are two favorites. Jonathan Williams and Charles Bukowski are two of my favorite poets who write in a humorous mode (tho not everything they've written is "funny".) (I don't know for sure, but I have a feeling that Mr. Williams would not appreciate being listed with Mr. Bukowski, and if Bukowski were alive, probably vice versa, but I'm doing the listing and they're not, so they stand together here.) Thanks for the push and reminder, Late. I'm taking a book of poetry off the shelves this afternoon, and will read some poems. I don't do this often enough - I would say "rarely" would cover it. Quote
ghost of miles Posted December 2, 2003 Author Report Posted December 2, 2003 BLACK LIBERATION/RED SCARE: BENJAMIN DAVIS AND THE COMMUNIST PARTY, by Gerald Horne. Starting another Alan Furst, too--NIGHT SOLDIERS, as well as Melville's "Benito Cereno," which I've had a strange itch to read for some time now. Quote
couw Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 Andrew Steele - Natural and Agricultural History of Peat Moss (1826) AKA: Steele - On Peat Moss, reprint of Steele 1802 w/ extensive appendix added. Great read BTW Quote
king ubu Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 Any readers of poems here? If so, what authors do you like? sure! Bachmann, Günther Eich, Ilse Aichinger, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Corso, Robert Walser, Else Lasker-Schüler, Jessenin, Rilke, any Dada poems (Ball, Arp, Huelsenbeck, Tzara, etc), Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Jandl... ubu Quote
king ubu Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 ... Gottfried Benn, Georg Trakl... Quote
ghost of miles Posted December 2, 2003 Author Report Posted December 2, 2003 Bachmann, Another Bachmann fan--hallelujah! We should form a club. I love her short stories, too, in THE THIRTIETH YEAR. Still haven't read THREE PATHS TO THE LAKE, though, or any of the Malina cycle. Quote
jazzbo Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 Finished Jazz and Modernism by Appel. Was alright. . . . Now in The Book of David by David Rosenburg. Excellent! Quote
king ubu Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 Sure, Bachmann... I read Malina recently, and really loved it! You got to have enough time to read it in two or three days. A great novel! You know "Der gute Gott von Manhattan"? Love it! Of her short stories (hell, these are no short stories, these are "Erzählungen"...), I know only a few, but have them all at hand, in case I want to read more... ubu Quote
king ubu Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 Are there good translations of Bachmann? I think here language is quite one of a kind. Also she's got an austrian touch. I guess quite some is lost with translation, no? ubu Quote
ghost of miles Posted December 2, 2003 Author Report Posted December 2, 2003 Are there good translations of Bachmann? I think here language is quite one of a kind. Also she's got an austrian touch. I guess quite some is lost with translation, no? ubu King, I'm not sure--I have the late-1980's translations of THIRTIETH and THREE PATHS, plus the paperback of her poetry that came out in the mid-1990s. Are there additional English translations? My German is only so-so, so I tend to read her in English... Here are some links to websites about her: Ingeborg Bachmann inGerman Quote
Jazzmoose Posted December 2, 2003 Report Posted December 2, 2003 I've just started One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest for (believe it or not!) the first time...what a riot! Quote
Matthew Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Not as heavy duty as some of the above books but I enjoyed reading Beyond Category: The Life and Genius of Duke Ellington, by John Edward Hasse. It didn't have any great insights but presented a straight forward outline of Ellington's life. It is a good read for the purpose of getting an overall feel for Ellington's life, and now that I've read it, I can go on to some more detailed books on various aspects of Ellington's life and music. Quote
neveronfriday Posted December 3, 2003 Report Posted December 3, 2003 Now reading ... the fine print on my rent contract. Quote
Jazz Posted December 6, 2003 Report Posted December 6, 2003 I only have time for one post tonight!! Ack. I FINALLY scraped some scratch together and bought a new book to read. YAY! I marched right into Borders and picked up Hagakure. I also have had copies of Moby Dick, Bleak House, and The Pickwick Papers that I started but never finished. I'm hoping to pick those up again soon. Yay, I'm going to actually read stuff. Read good. Me like. Read make fun time go happy place. Quote
ghost of miles Posted December 26, 2003 Author Report Posted December 26, 2003 Robert Sklar, MOVIE-MADE AMERICA, a book I bought a couple of years ago, knowing (as with many of the books I pick up) that one day it would announce, "Hey, read me!" from the stack of volumes wherein it resides. Just finished Spain Rodriguez's graphic-novel adaption of William Gresham's NIGHTMARE ALLEY (a very haunting late-40's noir story about the rise and fall of a spiritualist con man). Also reading THE MUSICAL WORLD OF J.J. JOHNSON--I'm hoping to do a special about him for what would have been his 80th birthday this January. Quote
jazzbo Posted December 26, 2003 Report Posted December 26, 2003 Very good book I'll be reading for a while: Quote
ghost of miles Posted December 26, 2003 Author Report Posted December 26, 2003 It sure is, Lon! I read that one several years ago and enjoyed it immensely. She's working on a followup about New York in the Fifties--I'll be buying that one as soon as it hits the stores. Quote
pryan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Posted December 27, 2003 Also reading THE MUSICAL WORLD OF J.J. JOHNSON--I'm hoping to do a special about him for what would have been his 80th birthday this January. Any chance that fellow board members will be able to listen to this online? Quote
pryan Posted December 27, 2003 Report Posted December 27, 2003 Currently, I'm reading volume 1 of a biography on John A. Macdonald, Canada's first Prime Minister. It's entitled THE YOUNG POLITICIAN; the author is Donald Creighton. Quote
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