Right. Ever notice how brown the trees are on deserted islands?
At 11:40 AM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
>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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>Behalf Of Mark Weiss
>Sent: 22 April 2009 16:20
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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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> >
> >http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
> >
> >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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