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[Larsen B]

This is my attempt to create a thread more stimulating than those with links to really shit things you can buy on e-bay or those about ninjas or pirates.

So, who's everyones favourite poets? I don't really read a lot of poetry but mine would have to Allen Ginsberg. His poem books Howl and Fall of America are excellent. Some of his poems tend to be a little too homo-erotic for my liking but he shares the knack with Kerouac for catching that poignant moment when you realise something has passed but you feel like you're the only one who has noticed or cares. I've also read Saul Williams' She which was good if a little too self-indulgent. I've been meaning to read something by Phillip Larkin or Slyvia Plath but haven't as of yet. Perhaps Demon Cleaner will help me out in that respect.

[shaun]

allen ginsberg.

bob dylan.

[Alan Cynic]

Kenneth Patchen

Lawrence Ferlenghetti (sp?)

Keith Douglas

Robert Burns

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[Larsen B]

Originally Posted by Alan Cynic

Kenneth Patchen

Lawrence Ferlenghetti (sp?)

Keith Douglas

Robert Burns

Yeah, I think that's how you spell Ferlenghetti. I've been meaning to read something by him as he was a key part of the Beat Generation both as a writer and publisher.

[Dayeth]

When I was one it just
Begun the day I went to
See I climbed aboard a
Pirate ship and the captain
Said to me were going this way that way
Over the deep blue sea a bottle of rum
To warm my tum and that's the right
For me.

When I was two
I went to the zoo the day I went to sea
I climbed aboard a pirate ship
And the captain said to me
We're going this way
That way over the deep blue sea.

i've always thought poetry was just for people who weren't good enough to sing in bands

[paranoid]

Rabbie Burns and Edgar Allan Poe. Obvious choices I know but I like what I like.

[Dave]

Charles Murray, Arthur Rimbaud, John Keats, Byron. Never really dug Shelley, for some reason, though.

Didn't Lawrence Ferlinghetti have a brief appearance in "The Last Waltz"? It was either him or Michael McLure reading beat-Chaucer to a deeply unimpressed rock audience.

Originally Posted by haigyman

i've always thought poetry was just for people who weren't good enough to sing in bands

Yeah, I hear Lord Byron was desperately disappointed not to be considered good enough to join Maiden...