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Alison said: > My current favourite under-appreciated poets: Georg Trakl, Jean Follain, > Quasimodo, Muriel Rukeyser. I've been reading Lorca again with the usual > astonishment and joy but I guess he's hardly underappreciated, although > in my three days subscribing to this list I've seen no mention of the > Spanish Yes yes yes to Muriel R. In fact I mentioned her backchannel to Doug Oliver yesterday, wondering why no-one had brought her name up on the list. I'd like to toss in a couple more: Johannes Bobrowski - pretty good translations available from Matthew Mead - and Vicente Huidobro, who has been less fortunate with his translators, except for his obra maestra, Altazor, available in Eliot Weinberger's translation from Graywolf in the States. Tony %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%