Lets have a contemporary poetry general thread. I'm quite

>>9194195
Examples, OP?

sentenced to Life by Clive James


Sentenced to life, I sleep face-up as though
Ice-bound, lest I should cough the night away,
And when I walk the mile to town, I show
The right technique for wading through deep clay.
A sad man, sorrier than he can say.

But surely not so guilty he should die
Each day from knowing that his race is run:
My sin was to be faithless. I would lie
As if I could be true to everyone
At once, and all the damage that was done

Was in the name of love, or so I thought.
I might have met my death believing this,
But no, there was a lesson to be taught.
Now, not just old, but ill, with much amiss,
I see things with a whole new emphasis.

My daughter’s garden has a goldfish pool
With six fish, each a little finger long.
I stand and watch them following their rule
Of never touching, never going wrong:
Trajectories as perfect as plain song.

Once, I would not have noticed; nor have known
The name for Japanese anemones,
So pale, so frail. But now I catch the tone
Of leaves. No birds can touch down in the trees
Without my seeing them. I count the bees.

Even my memories are clearly seen:
Whence comes the answer if I’m told I must
Be aching for my homeland. Had I been
Dulled in the brain to match my lungs of dust
There’d be no recollection I could trust.

Yet I, despite my guilt, despite my grief,
Watch the Pacific sunset, heaven sent,
In glowing colours and in sharp relief,
Painting the white clouds when the day is spent,
As if it were my will and testament –

As if my first impressions were my last,
And time had only made them more defined,
Now I am weak. The sky is overcast
Here in the English autumn, but my mind
Basks in the light I never left behind.

>>9194251
Well I think Don Patterson's alright. Kirill Medvedev is pretty good if you don't mind things getting a bit #political sometimes

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I liked this book by Emily Pettit. The whole thing is basically an auto-self-help book, most titles are "How to [something]," usually subjects anxiety. I wouldn't call it GREAT but there are nice little moments. Here's the titular poem.

>>9194273
I actually meant poems from the book.

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>>9194307
Ah right my bad.

>>9194380
No prob senpai. Nice poems.

Red pill me on blank verse. How do I read it so it actually sounds good? Non-anglo here.

>>9194392
Reading it out loud when you're alone might be a good starting point. Just reading it out like you're reading out prose

>>9194428
Well it just sounds like prose read out. Am I too autistic? Is blank verse just another shitty anglo meme?

>>9194380
This is solid.

>>9194442
Do you not think prose can sound beautiful? It's--

>Red pill me
>Am I too autistic
>shitty anglo meme

Jesus, anon.

>>9194442
Poetry isn't just rhymes my dude, there's so much more to it. Read Paradise Lost maybe, that's in blank verse

Can anyone help me understand symbolist poetry. I'm down with more contemporary stuff, like I understand more structural and pomo stuff, where it's just about language disconnected from reason cause that's just more of an abstract thing. But yeah really have no idea about anything related to symbolist stuff

>>9194465
I think prose absolutely can sound beautiful, but I was wondering if blank verse is actually anything more than just prose with some formatting. Don't Jesus me, you know where you are.

>>9194260
Sentence You to Life by Brian Limond

For stealing
A bag of wheat
You'll be hanged upside
Down by the feet
For life

I quite liked Seidel's "Widening Income Inequality."

>>9195546
Keep this thread going. What did you like about it?

>>9194195
Any recs for someone who likes Anne Carson?
Stuff like Float or Nox, that's presented in an odd form and is maybe as much an tactile experience as a poetical one.