and the nominations are ...
and the nominations are ...
Robert Frost
Bathroom Joe at the bus stop
Here I set all brokenhearted
paid a dime to shit, but only farted.
Well.... wrote:
Robert Frost
there are really only three options. the others are Eliot and Stevens.
my personal favorite is stevens.
Don't forget about Pound.
robert zimerman
I would comment on this thread, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.
This question is similar to asking who the greatest miler of the 20th century is. The poetry written in 1900 was vastly different from the poetry written in 1999. Different criticism applies. That said, I like the beats. A little bit prior to that, william carlos williams & wallace stevens. plath deserves to be mentioned as well.
I'm going to put in my vote for Frost as well. I also like Elizabeth Bishop.
I can't believe that anyone would nominate Pound. A bad poet and a worse man.
On a side not, can one cast one's vote for Auden? The Bernard Lagat of American poetry perhaps? How about Eliot?
Langston Hughes
Wallace Stevens is in the mix.
Ah, if nominating Pound is bad, what about nominating members of The Beats? Ginsberg was a self-proclaimed member of MBLA (Man-Boy Lovers Association)! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
So, do we look at the work or the poet? "The Cantos" versus "Howl"?
What about Anne Sexton of the Confessional School of Poets? Wasn't she having an affair with her therapist? Sylvia Plath committed suicide! Knock her off too?
MINA LOY.
How did all of you skip over her? Especially the ones naming Wallace, Stevens, Eliot, and Pound?
Ewan McTeagle
EMINEM
Bison Burgers wrote:
MINA LOY.
How did all of you skip over her? Especially the ones naming Wallace, Stevens, Eliot, and Pound?
Aaaand I meant Wallace Stevens. Not Wallace, Stevens.
-prepared to get ripped.
I can't stand Robert Frost.
Wallace Stevens.
Or Paul Westerberg.
Marianne Moore is arguably the most inflential American poet of modern times. It is a pity none of you know anything about her literary art.
Hart Crane.
John Ashbery.
Wallace Stevens.
William Carlos Williams.
Elizabeth Bishop.
H.D.
Robert Creeley.
are to poetry as the following are to running, in a very loose analogy...
Prefontaine.
Bob Kennedy.
Frank Shorter.
Bill Rogers.
Mary Slaney.
Lynn Jennings.
Alberto Salazar.
Bob Marley.
Eliminate all of his work except the following line and he is still the winner.
"Them belly full but we hungry"