Good Poetry

[wakesavage]

Inspired by the "Good Books" thread. Post up your favorite Poet or Poetry.

The Iliad/Odyssey are obviously Amazing. The Fagles translation is best IMHO

Here's a list of a few I really liked when I read them just off the top of my head, had to flip through a few books, but I remembered really enjoying these (among many others):



The Word Plum - Helen Chasin

What the Motorcycle Said - Mona Van Duyn

Keeping Things Whole - Mark Strand

First Fight, Then Fiddle - Gwendolyn Brooks

Neutral Tones - Thomas Hardy




Anyone else have any? Doesn't have to be the best poem ever, just one/some you liked

[Steve Ignorant]

god I got the sad blue blues,
this woman sat there and she
said
are you really Charles



Bukowski?




and I said

forget that


I do not feel good
I've got the sad sads
all I want to do is
f­uck you
and she laughed
she thought I was being
clever
and O I just looked up her long slim legs of heaven
I saw her liver and her quivering intestine
I saw Christ in there
jumping to a folk-rock
all the long lines of starvation within me
rose
and I walked over
and grabbed her on the couch
ripped her dress up around her face
and I didn't care
rape or the end of the earth
one more time
to be there
anywhere
real
yes
her panties were on the
floor
and my c­ock went in
my co­ck my god my coc­k went in
I was Charles
Somebody.

~Charles Bukowski



Bukowski is the only poetry any man should need. I certainly have a classical background, Keates and Yates are two of my favorites along with Oscar Wilde... but Bukowski is just the end all, beat all badass.