is there any good contemporary poetry

all modern poetry is shit

>>9841628
Anne Carson

>>9841628
>Why the fuck is shit like "Milk and Honey" getting so much popularity?

because they sell it at urban outfitters in a display next to books about kim kardashian

because they pay shills like op to start threads about it all over the internet

>>9841635

t. nonreader

>>9841642
i wish i was being paid. at least enough to get my money back for that garbage book

>>9841650
let me guess, you like bukowski and eliot?

>>9841628
Poetry has been shit for the last century or more.

>>9841670
I don't like bukowski, but I do like Eliot. Let me guess, you like Byron?

I surmise that for a slow-minded illiterate person, reading Rupi Kaur is a profound experience.

>>9841628

Prose split up by lines like
this and jesus you’re just
mocking the whole modern
vanguard of american poets
who take people for goddamn
fools and make $ selling trite
thoughts separated by strikes
of the Enter key and then you
get vicious and start SPITTING RHYMES OUT THE FUCKING ASS

>>9841792
I'M SLAPPING RUPI KAUR ON THE ASS YAH
I'M GETTING SO MUCH FUCKING CASH YAH
I'M WHIPPIN I'M WHIPPIN GOING FAST YAH
NIGGA YOU LAME YOU END UP LAST YAH

>>9841628
Advice from 1 Disciple of Marx to 1 Heidegger Fanatic is great. Not exactly "Modern" but recent enough to satisfy this ol' dog.

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>>9841693
in case you guys were wondering, there's only one guy who keeps posting this image and it's me

Longfellow was popular two centuries ago and then everyone suddenly thought he was a hack. Some things are confined to the time and place they were written while others have a more lasting appeal.

>>9841814

When will summer be over

>>9841628
>Why the fuck is shit like "Milk and Honey" getting so much popularity?
"Muh vagina"
"Muh black"

Being in a """""""""""oppressed minority group""""""""""" is all the rage at the moment, OP, in case you haven't noticed.