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post #46 of 53
3/4/10 at 3:55pm
The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam One of my favorite books of poetry. (particularly the Edward J. Fitzgerald translation into English). This should be available freely online somewhere.
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post #47 of 53
3/4/10 at 4:07pm
War All The Time by Bukowski
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post #48 of 53
3/5/10 at 12:26am
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War All The Time by Bukowski

Really? No one actually likes Bukowski, they just say they do.
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post #49 of 53
3/5/10 at 12:29am
the wasteland
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post #50 of 53
3/5/10 at 12:31am
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Really? No one actually likes Bukowski, they just say they do.

I used to crush a girl who loved everything that Bukowski wrote.
Listening to her ramble on turned me off poetry for a couple more years. . .
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post #51 of 53
3/5/10 at 12:35am
Start with a poet from your own country and language.

For Americans, I think that Whitman and Dickinson are good starts.


- B
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post #52 of 53
3/5/10 at 12:42am
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Frost is doing a good job for me so far. Just AMZN'd The Waste Land.
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post #53 of 53
3/5/10 at 12:45am
Martial - nothing like a little Roman humor

"You invite no one [to dinner], Cotta, unless you wash with him, and the baths alone provide you with a guest. I used to wonder, Cotta, why you had never invited me: now I know that when I'm naked I don't please you."
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