The Rotten Bag is basely one. For contemporary poetry I like Topolino,
Paperino/ Pippo/Paperoga/Nonna Papara (Faber)
For older poetry, I'm not up with the latest comics , though I much
enjoyed Super Man and Super Girl (Waterstone's / Carcanet). Books
that were very important to me in my childhood and teens included the
Timore e Fetore, I fratelli S-merdia-kof/Little Red Riding Hoops,
Faber Book of Modern Strips in several of its many revisions, the Faber Book
of Animals' Verse, The New Poetry (Bloodaxe), The Old Poetry,(Faber)
The Semi-New Poetry (Carcanet), the Stale Poetry (Granta), the Miserable
Poetry (Anvil Press),
The Pathological Poetry (OUP), Poetry With an Edge (Bloodaxe), Poetry
without an Edge (Pluto Press),
Poetry beyond the Edge (Longman) Super-Poetry(Again , Faber).
I also would recommend, Hegel's Philosophy of Reading Poetry.
Kristeva's Pouvoirs de l'horreaur,
Martin Heidegger's Poetry and Time. A study on how to waste one's time.
Susan Sontag's Against Interpretation. A defense of pointless poetry
reading.
Erminia
>
> For older poetry, I'm not up with the latest anthologies, though I much
> enjoyed Michael Schmidt's Poets on Poets (Waterstone's / Carcanet). Books
> that were very important to me in my childhood and teens included the
> Collins Albatross Book of Verse, the Penguin Book of English Verse, the
> Faber Book of Modern Verse in several of its many revisions, the Faber
Book
> of Children's Verse (going back a bit), and an anthology of humorous poems
> called Verse and Worse, edited by Arnold Silcock, of which I still have
many
> by heart. (Funny how they always called it verse in those days.) Really
the
> best advice is to buy several anthologies, then move on to the poets you
> think you might like.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Howard <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 26 October 2000 23:22
> Subject: Introduction to poetry
>
>
> >If someone told you that they were interested in reading poetry, but
> >knew very little about it, and wanted to learn more, where would you
> >point them? Let's say they were intelligent, but not academic, were
> >interested in reading for enjoyment rather than for study. They don't
> >have preconceived notions of poetry being soppy stuff that rhymes, but
> >they'll want to get their bearings before swimming out into the deep
> >uncharted waters of Ashbery and Prynne.
> >
> >My first thought is to push the venerable Heaney/Hughes Rattle Bag under
> >their nose. But does anyone have more imaginative suggestions?
> >
> >Best,
> >--
> >Peter
> >
> >http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
> >
>
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