Or toilet paper ! which current poetry book has the most pages of a decent
size and with preferably 'now wash your hands please-I am hoping for
something of at least ten thousand pages in one volume
Cheers Patrick the tone lowerer
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Subject: Re: Desert island poetry books
Depends who long a stay and if there's adequate firewood.
At 10:40 AM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
>Also not quite my list, Jon, but a lot closer, as a number of those
>books would be on mine, too....
>
>Doug
>(who hates such lists)
>On 21-Apr-09, at 12:06 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
>
>>As an experiment, and wondering what I would come up with, I've drawn
>>up my own list of :
>>
>>10 Best Poetry Books
>>
>>The Cantos by Ezra Pound (New Directions 1972)
>>Ezra Pound Collected Poems (American Library ed, has everything but
>>the Cantos)
>>Complete Poems and Plays 1909 -1950 by T. S. Eliot
>>The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats (ed. Alt and Alspach)
>>The Poetry of Robert Frost (ed. Lathem 1975)
>>The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1981)
>>The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams 1909-1962
>>H. D. Collected Poems 1912-1944
>>Robert Graves New Collected Poems 1977
>>Philip Larkin Collected Poems (ed. Thwaite 1989)
>>
>>
>>-----
>>Notes:
>>
>>1) Since this posting has notes it gets to be taken seriously.
>>2) The list covers English language poetry since 1900 and excludes
>>anthologies, which are worth while but deserve their own list
>>(provided on request.)
>>3) The Williams is two volumes but may be counted as one since it's
>>my list.
>>4) Yes I know there's poetry after Larkin but it's a bunch of junk.
>>
>>
>>--
>>===============================================
>>
>> Jon Corelis http://jcorelis.googlepages.com/joncorelis
>>
>>===============================================
>
>Douglas Barbour
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>Latest books:
>Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>Wednesdays'
>http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.
html
>
>There's the wind and the rain
>And the mercy of the fallen
>Who say they have no claim to know what's right
> Dar Williams
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