https://www.theguardian.com/books/2 017/mar/17/nobel-laureat

so, who's next?

>>9251770

Pynchon or Delilo

Love Walcott's poetry. RIP goodnight sweet prince. But why did he always seem so grumpy?

no...no!!!!

>>9251919
very mad about white colonialism

>>9251770
Roth

>>9251919
he was a very emotionally raw person. I remember a radio documentary about the death of seamus heaney and he wept like a child....he didn't just get tearful, he bawled.

>>9252078
>Roth
Yes!

Insomniac since four, hearing this narrow,

rigidly metred, early-rising rain

recounting, as its coolness numbs the marrow,

that I am nearing forty, nearer the weak

vision thickening to a frosted pane,

nearer the day when I may judge my work

by the bleak modesty of middle age

as a false dawn, fireless and average,

which would be just, because your life bled for

the household truth, the style past metaphor

that finds its parallel however wretched

in simple, shining lines, in pages stretched

plain as a bleaching bedsheet under a guttering

rainspout; glad for the sputter

of occasional insight,

you who foresaw

ambition as a searing meteor

will fumble a damp match and, smiling, settle

for the dry wheezing of a dented kettle,

for vision narrower than a louvre’s gap,

then, watching your leaves thin, recall how deep

prodigious cynicism plants its seed,

gauges our seasons by this year’s end rain

which, as greenhorns at school, we’d

call conventional for convectional;

or you will rise and set your lines to work

with sadder joy but steadier elation,

until the night when you can really sleep,

measuring how imagination

ebbs, conventional as any water clerk

who weighs the force of lightly falling rain,

which, as the new moon moves it, does its work

even when it seems to weep.

Fuck, I was talking about him just yesterday with a Saint Lucia fellow on /sp/.

Let's share his poems then.

Star

If, in the light of things, you fade
real, yet wanly withdrawn
to our determined and appropriate
distance, like the moon left on
all night among the leaves, may
you invisibly delight this house;
O star, doubly compassionate, who came
too soon for twilight, too late
for dawn, may your pale flame
direct the worst in us
through chaos
with the passion of
plain day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8btxEf1qF84

>RIP in peace

fucking idiot

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>>9252119

>>9252078
Roth isn't writing any more.

>>9252082
He's one of my favorite authors.

>>9252140
my favourite too.
But he's getting pretty old and can't last forever.

I watched a great documentary about roth yesterday pt1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh_tCH4ztRM
pt2 http://www.veoh.com/watch/v98873800c7zMbBAS

A fucking cool guy. Goodnight, sweet prince.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOHMZsKY8Y

>>9251770
John Ashbery

Niggers, etc

>>9252525
He should have won the NObel prize and not Bob Dylan

>>9252543
I know. I hope he never dies.