It's my friend's birthday in a few days and I want to get her something a bit different to what she'll probably get from our other mates. I don't know much about her favourite poets except she likes Auden and T.S. Eliot... any good cheap poetry books or anthologies anyone can recommend?
Oh yeh and I really want to fuck her, but that's not the point.
well obvz
write her some poetry!
Yeah
that will definitely not be horriffically terrible, do it!
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"Eye Can, Ewe Can, Wee Can, Sea Can" By Arthur Soft
Is pretty good, hard to find though
xx
Poetry...
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If she likes T.S. Eliot
you could score some major points by getting her an Ezra Pound collection (try Cantos) as Pound was the man who edited and worked with Eliot on 'The Wasteland' etc (Eliot dedicates it to him and calls him 'il miglior fabricator' - the better craftsman).
My mum has that in her room
She did English Lit at uni in the 1970s.
It will look a bit cheap if I just nick the copy off my mum's shelves though... Amazon time.
It will look oedipally fucked up
if you give a potential love interest a book that belonged to your mother. The Freudian ramifications don't bear thinking about.
There's enough material for a poem in all this I reckon.
Ted Hughes
Birthday Letters
?
actually, bit obvious
she will probably have it
plus
a lot of sensitive poetry loving girls have a hatred of Ted Hughes 'because he drove Sylvia Plath to kill herself'. I've met many of these people.
i used to be like that
because i loved her first.
hmmm
nice idea, indeed!
Charles Simic - very imagistic, character led poetry (much like T.S.Eliot's earlier stuff)
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/27
Frank O' Hara ( enjoyable and maybe more present like - not too much hard work)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O'Hara
Hart Crane - major influence was T.S. Eliot but he's hard work
....sometimes I think collections of letters between writers and their friends/other writers are quite interesting - Kafka and Milena's letters are supposed to be great (have ordered my own copy) love letters - good hint there- as well as illuminating about his work processes. Also, other people's letters are pretty fascinating sometimes!
Man, I wish someone would buy me some poetry!
Might get this:
http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/561692/Ezra-Pound/Product.html
that is indeed the sort of thing
If you get lucky as a result of my poetry recommendations I want a ^5 PM ok?
BOUGHT
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twenty love poems and a song of despair
It's not got the romantic appeal
that you might looking for, but I will be forever indebted to the person who gave me this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Emergency-Kit-Poems-Strange-Times/dp/0571223001
because it's a wonderful modern collection, and introduced me to many many brilliant current and recent writers.
I would try:
Sylvia Plath - Ariel (it's amazing)
Allen Ginsberg - Howl
Pablo Neruda - there are a few by him
ee cummings
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass (it's his autobiography in poetry - very cool indeed)
Sylvia Plath
neurotic bitch she was!
Oh and not really poetry but amazing all the same
Dan Rhodes - Anthropology (it's like short paragraph stories, one on each page) Awesome for a gift - I got it and loved it!
GET THIS:
Bloodaxe books - Staying Alive poetry anthology.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Staying-Alive-Poems-Unreal-Times/dp/1852245883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214780228&sr=1-1
too black too strong
http://tinyurl.com/6m9peg