Poetry is meant to be read and performed! Perform classics,

http://vocaroo.com/i/s07YScFgFVQx

>>7554760
>That blend of modern white noise in the background with your performance.
>The frontal post-modern sexual themes.
>The ephemeral nature of your short words on an internet message board.

Truly a genius walks among us.

Sonnet 116, "classic spoken-word" intonation. Just thought it would be funny.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0ku3GeGwoVi

>>7554782
fucking kek

are you swedish?

>>7554792
Yes indeed

>>7554806
>loo-ved

kek'd

rap it

>>7554814
lol, just felt natural I guess...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s

I did one more. This one you should all know.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1rUTl5b2jV5

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>>7554921
>yfw you will never dance with the daffodils.

>>7554750

Natural Voice:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0vtQKHSVB06

Ezra Pound fun:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1YmW24cOJmp

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>>7555084
Courageous.

If you have microphone boost turned on you might want to turn it down by 10dbs or so.

>>7555125

danke

testing:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1VBX9G12fjC

The Seafarer (first 30ish lines)
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0BLKlCfAMZC

>>7555084
You might enjoy this.
https://archive.org/details/EzraPound

I might recite some Pound if given the chance.

>>7555219

yeah I've heard most of those a while back. He's really hard to imitate unless you use your whole body to recite like he clearly did. I think I got it down around 1:20 in the second link of >>7555192

I could try reciting some Dante in his voice for fun:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0a4xj2MNWkb

And now for some Canadian Poetry. Archibald Lampman's The City of the End of Things.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s10SlkEbV3iA

85 lines and I fuck up on the second last one.

>>7554750
Poetry is meant to be read and analysed!

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I will post something when I get home.

pls no bully

http://vocaroo.com/i/s07QmtjY06X4

>>7555735
nice but are your parents from an Asian country? Also name and author?

>>7555747
yes.
shakespeare 55

One more~

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1HbtD4V67kt

>>7555668
This was nice anon I enjoyed it.

>tfw you will never have such a nice recitation voice

>>7555776
This one is clearer than your first one, nice improvement.

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1IIBvILj1xt

give me something to read

>>7555872
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General%27s_Song

>>7555903
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General%27s_Song

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dYdcTUJ4d8

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>>7555939

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s0uZJBXY1ofg

>>7556013
That was good
for you

>>7556013
what accent?

>>7556013
You sound like an npc who will give me a sneaking mission in a fantasy rpg.

>>7556020
read something, you bullyous coward

Ok dudes I'll read one more before I go back to working on my novel.

Another Canadian Classic by Archibald Lampman.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Ljr9rpa3eJ

>>7556165
why do you read as if you were angry at your mic?

>>7556186
maybe i am angry at my mic.

>>7556192
why are you angry at your mic?

>>7556196
it killed my family.

>why do you use it if it kileld you family?

i'm too poor to buy a new one.

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>>7556202
how did it kill your family? if you don't mind me asking?

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1DfoZtFbiQe

>>7556352
kek

>>7556352
you sound like fitzthistlewits

>>7556395
That's huge compliment to me, fitz is my idol. Thank you.

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>>7556352
I knew exactly what I was going to hear before i even opened the link

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s1M6S7FLTq8O

>>7556165
>http://vocaroo.com/i/s1M6S7FLTq8O
I enjoyed this anon, very passionate and sincere.

Are you Canadian yourself?

>>7556352
ayyyy

>>7556604
Yes. You quoted the wrong link though.

>>7556645
err yeah, my bad

I looked at Lampmans wiki page, he was an interesting man. Thanks for sharing.

revive

>>7558576
Later tonight I will share some more Canadian Poetry. Maybe some Irving Layton or A.J.M Smith.

>>7558594
E.J Pratt's the Prize Cat

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1hj5NjeImmd

poetry is almost never read or performed right. even by poets themselves.

which means it's best read.

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http://vocaroo.com/i/s11U3MgW1KQu

>>7559885
O yah? Well I don't believe you read it the right way, doodiehead.

Someone with a Scottish accent do The Scotsman's Return From Abroad.

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>>7560028
nice desu

>>7560037
>>>7559885
>O yah? Well I don't believe you read it the right way, doodiehead.
You shouldn't, that guy is a fucking idiot. Does he think that the Odyssey wasn't poetry before somebody wrote it down?

>>7560028

not bad. rare to find someone here who likes Hill.

What do you think of King Log?

>>7560724
King Log, like much of his early stuff, is impeccable art.

>>7560853

Again, rare to find someone who likes Hill here, and prefers good Hill.

Is there anything tastier than those crunchy Anglo-Saxon rooted words in Annunciations?

I'm writing poetry and Hill is currently one of my fixations.

>>7561222
To my knowledge, Hill is very obscure, despite interviews and articles from well-known sources. I sort of stumbled into Hill early in the year, and I haven't been able to dismiss him so easily--this coming from a Mexican-American. I just love his sense of outrage and his strong attachment to English history.

>>7561347
I meant early last year. I forget it's 2016.

>>7561347
>Hill is very obscure

in more than one way, so to speak. though the poem you read is accessible

It's not reliable, but I think he has 30 goodreads ratings for his collected poems last time I checked. I occasionally check to see how many a poet has for their works to get an idea of who's read and how much so. To get an idea, Ezra Pound probably has 10,000ish ratings for works, Eliot 30,000ish, Stevens has 7000ish (?), H Crane has 2000ish, Hill has 30ish. So yes, rather obscure.

Most academics know who he is though, and Bloom says he's the best living English poet, which I can get behind. English as in England, that is. I'm not sure what Bloom would think between Ashbery v. Hill. Probably Ashbery.

>>7561374

Strike that, he's about 80ish ratings for selected works, and about 30ish average for the rest. Somewhat similar to, say, Ammons.

>>7561374
I entertained that idea at one point, to pit Ashbery against Hill. But their respective styles are different and of a different vision altogether. I think the idea is to stack one's grand sublime power against the other's.

>>7561394

Absolutely, they're almost polar opposites. Hill is very in line with the modernist tradition, and while he has those American roots with Tate, he is a very British poet, and his outlook on religion is very British, as are his on war.

Ashbery is very much a consequence of Whitman and Stevens and is about American as poetry gets nowadays.

The difference is that Hill is still writing good poetry

>>7561409

(and yes I know this is all very reductive of both of them, but really I'm not good about talking poetry unless it's about a specific poem, in which case I can go on for hours. Early Hill has many I am enthusiastic about.)

>>7561409
>The difference is that Hill is still writing good poetry

There's no doubt about this. I read some of Ashbery's recent stuff, and like the oeuvre of most (not all, mind you) acclaimed American writers, quality starts waning in later works, essentially becoming parodies of their earlier work. That's my opinion on Ashbery on the moment, although he is still stronger than most American poets nowadays.

>>7561416
I feel you.

>>7561426

I'm honestly very skeptical about American poetry after Ashbery, with all those wacky Language hacks and all. I've heard about "elliptical" poetry and "the new thing" poetry and it really seems to be laughable -- really, any poetic tradition that hails Williams and Olson as "great poets worth study" is no tradition of mine. It just seems like a movement that wants to produce profound poetry but lacks the collective talent and hence groups together under a label to promote each other with kudos and publishing deals and professorships at MFA mills. You know, except a made-up label that lacks the genius of an Ezra Pound to actually give it any weight at all.

I was a fan of Merwin but then read past his first four collections and into his "free verse period" and found that a lot of it is fluff. And he's like 90 anyways.

anyone young and fresh worth reading?

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>>7561416

>>7561442
No one that I'm aware of anyway. I don't search out for new poets--I'm always obsessing over one collection after the other, which slows down much of my progress.

>>7561443
I'm jealous that you own this.

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>>7561443

Jealous. Pic related are the only poetry books I own for myself other than a few Dante's, Whitman's, a troubadour anthology, and some Latin stuff. I'm still looking for the right edition of Hart Crane to buy, since I like to annotate my copies even though I take notes on the side. I have a ways to go.

>>7561457

True. I read an occasional "contemporary poetry" collection and that's about it myself, no names have really stood out to me yet. Besides, I'm reading more and more poetry both in English and other languages from the canon (and outside of it) and there's a lot there already. Not to mention that even pic related could take a lifetime to read.

>>7561481
Just get the Modern Library edition of Hart Crane's poetry. It contains his poems, prose, and letters. You can't go wrong with that. But since you like to annotate, get some paperback copies. Hart Crane comes complete in any edition.

>>7561505
Whoops. I meant Library of America edition.

>>7561481
hey faggot
buy the recent translation of the Zibaldone by Leopardi
Its his greatest work

>>7561525
>I meant Library of America edition.

thinking about it, but the only problem is that LoA is fucking expensive. This Pound one I have, I only have it cuz it was a gift. I'll consider the LoA though if it includes his letters. I know the Stevens one is pretty good, has all the poems and many other of his essays and lectures. Wonder if Crane is similar.

Jack Kerouac for ya'll

>>7561611
forgot the link.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0aGxzJ3WrCb

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1PC8Zh54LIL

Three Poems, Written Drunk and Read Drunk about my Ex Boyfriend and Current One