@GeePawHill I was dumbstruck by hearing Charlotte Mew’s “À Quoi Bon Dire” in the film The Penguin Letters a couple years ago. But Wallace McCrae’s “Reincarnation” is at least a runner-up.
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@GeePawHill
Hah! I would say but I couldn't do it with outing myself.
And, besides, I really love the one you just posted.
@GeePawHill I have not been reading poetry long enough to circle down to just one. So, Ima give you 4 for the price of 1:
The Uses of Sorrow by Mary Oliver
Nirvana by Charles Bukowski
A Man Said to the Universe by Stephen Crane
Because I Could not Stop for Death by Emily Dickenson
Oddly none are by my favorite poet, Wislawa Szymborska
@hsfear So? Howard? WTF, you totally broke the rules. You're cut off, you're blocked, you're nothing to me now.
I've only read Szymborska like twice in translation.
Do you have a particular poem?
@GeePawHill The Crane poem mentioned also absolutely nails how I view the world.
@GeePawHill I think "A Word on Statistics" is the one most known. You might appreciate "Hatred". "No Title Required" resonates strongly with how I view the world - which is generally true for most of her work which I why I enjoy it so much.
@hsfear Okay, fine, rule-breaker -- those were four great choices -- in the morning I will sober up and find the poems you named.
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
by Wendell Berry
Love the quick profit, the annual raise,
vacation with pay. Want more
of everything ready-made. Be afraid
to know your neighbors and to die.
And you will have a window in your head.
….
@beckett Interesting choice. He's know so much more for his philsopical/political work than for his poetry.
@GeePawHill He started as a gifted poet. It’s all there from the getgo.
@RonJeffries Wow. I never expected to get a Hopkins!
@RonJeffries "Sprung rhythm" was much derided, cuz nobody could quite make it out as a form or style. But I see Hopkins as a kind of zero'th generation of free verse.
@GeePawHill I{m just some heathen and like the way it reads,
@RonJeffries Well, the whole concept of "sprung rhythm" was really "make it sound like someone speaking".
@GeePawHill
Yeah you hear "dapple dawn-drawn falcon" down at the Ford dealer all the time.
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@GeePawHill *spoiler* Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Frost
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652/nothing-gold-can-stay-5c095cc5ab679
@GeePawHill there are two poems I love enough to remember their names and my favorite of those is Instructions to the Double by Tess Gallagher
@GeePawHill I was dumbstruck by hearing Charlotte Mew’s “À Quoi Bon Dire” in the film The Penguin Letters a couple years ago. But Wallace McCrae’s “Reincarnation” is at least a runner-up.
@sakhavi I don't know either. I will look into them both.
@GeePawHill Favorite is an elusive concept for me, but seeing the title of your favorite make me think of The Bronze Horseman by Pushkin, and I haven’t read in a couple decades, prolly.
@gdinwiddie Good choice. Hard to find a great translation, but when you find one, you begin to understand Russian culture.
@GeePawHill I took Russian Lit because my favorite English Professor was teaching it. She taught herself Russian to be able to read works without going through a translation.
@GeePawHill Right now? Ballad of Suicide, G.K. Chesterton :)
@geonz Ahhhh, lovely. I think of him so highly in *prose*, I forget that he wrote poetry, too.
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