Recommend me a book of Poems. Srsly.

[why]

Originally Posted by Amar ezzahi

Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil.

Yes, because someone new to poetry will enjoy reading preeminent authors in translation.

 

[AGPi]

Cavafy. Philip Larkin.

 

[mccvi]

Originally Posted by Amar ezzahi

Charles Baudelaire, Flowers of Evil.

Seconded and ratified.

 

[Wallcloud]

Jonah Winter- Maine

 

[FLMountainMan]

Joseph Auslander. Riders at the Gate

 

[RedLantern]

Originally Posted by audiophilia

Leaves of Grass

X 1000.

 

[theincumbent]

Stan Rice - Radiance of Pigs

 

[volatility smile]

I'll third Les Fleurs du Mal.

 

[Chargersfan]

Originally Posted by Jokerman

Arthur Rimbaud's Complete Works.


+1 A season in hell and the drunken boat

 

[Pennglock]

Originally Posted by Hard2Fit

I've just started reading "Robert Frost's Poems" and "Dylan Thomas Selected Poems 1934-1952".
Give me something to read when I'm done.
(Fwiw, I hated poetry when I was in school so I'm a complete noob.)
Thx.

From that same era I like Hart Crane (White Buildings, or The Bridge) and Wallace Stevens. Stevens daughter compiled the best collection of his works in The Palm at the End of the Mind.

 

[gomestar]

I was always a big fan of Theodore Roethke.

 

[imightbechad]

Terrance Hayes - Wind in a Box Kevin Young - To Repel Ghosts

 

[Jokerman]

 

[AR_Six]

Originally Posted by AndrewRyanWallace

If you're looking for accessible, cummings, Pound, and Eliot will not be where you want to look first. Well Eliot isn't too bad.
As someone with a degree in this I will pull rank and positively assert that Eliot is one of the most challenging and complex poets ever to write anything worth reading. If you want accessible, you go way way back. As in, back to Sidney, or even to Chaucer and Gower. To whoever suggested a Norton anthology that actually isn't a bad start to get a taste of pretty much everything, although they're separated by period now.

 

[Mujib]

The Best Poems of the English Language: From Chaucer Through Robert Frost