I'm choosing three books of poetry to take with me on a - /lit/ - Literature

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2016-10-07 07:21:11 Post No. 8592446
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 07:21:11 Post No. 8592446 [Report]

I'm choosing three books of poetry to take with me on a two year trip. Poems to really focus on and work with.

I know I'm taken a collection of Auden.

Any further suggestions? I have some candidates in mind, but I don't want to lead suggestions.

TL;DR books of poetry that will accompany me in foreign lands and develop in my mind. These will possibly be my only "media" for months at a time.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 08:48:32 Post No.8592569
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 08:48:32 Post No.8592569 [Report]

Original Chaucer or Milton and a collection of Wordsworth

Anonymous 2016-10-07 11:27:59 Post No.8592758
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 11:27:59 Post No.8592758 [Report]

Pound (Cantos)
Celan (bilingual edition with a translation of your choice)
Prynne (Poems, 2015 edition)

Anonymous 2016-10-07 11:40:31 Post No.8592784
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 11:40:31 Post No.8592784 [Report]

>>8592446
Are you familiar with Vallejo? Would probably be nice to bring one of his collections.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 12:28:20 Post No.8592873
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 12:28:20 Post No.8592873 [Report]

The Changing Light at Sandover - James Merrill
Clarel - Herman Melville
A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle - Hugh MacDiarmid

LEL 2016-10-07 12:30:32 Post No.8592874
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LEL 2016-10-07 12:30:32 Post No.8592874 [Report]

>>8592784
This and Whitman

Anonymous 2016-10-07 13:41:53 Post No.8593048
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 13:41:53 Post No.8593048 [Report]

>>8592784
Very interesting choice. Thank you. Will seriously consider.
>>8592569
I like the idea of Chaucer or Milton, but also feel they're probably best given my time back home where I can also freely access secondary texts.
>>8592873
Will consider all.
>>8592874
My thesis was on Whitman

Anonymous 2016-10-07 13:42:54 Post No.8593054
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 13:42:54 Post No.8593054 [Report]

>>8592446
Markings - Dag Hammarskjold

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:18:38 Post No.8594282
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:18:38 Post No.8594282 [Report]

>>8592446

Horace - Odes
Rilke - (Stundenbuch / Book of hours)
Cavafy - Collected Poems

>plebs...

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:25:48 Post No.8594306
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:25:48 Post No.8594306 [Report]

>>8592446
Omeros by Walcott is worth consideration

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:26:05 Post No.8594310
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:26:05 Post No.8594310 [Report]

>>8593054
Excrement freedom fries. I'd never heard of this. Thanks.

Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:27:03 Post No.8594314
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Anonymous 2016-10-07 20:27:03 Post No.8594314 [Report]

>>8593054
cool