I want to buy a book of poems to have around the house. Is Hart Crane a good pick? I've liked the ones I read by him. But maybe there's someone better.
>>24703367Hart Crane's a good pick. Yeats is another good pick. You want a poet you can pick up, read, and revisit, so Stevens would work as well.
Bump for due diligence
>>24703367You want Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and the Bronte sisters' poetry laying around your house. Impress women who come to visit you. Show that you're a man who puts up a visual display to indicate that you appreciate women.
you could stop being a performative dickhead and just actually read the shit you buy
>>24703619I don't care about impressing women.>>24703755I'm buying the book to read it, anon.
>>24703367It doesn't make sense to buy by Crane as >a book of poems to have around the house, By all means buy Crane, he's a very obscure visionary who is often sublime, but this just doesn't make sense to me for what you want, which sounds like an anthology. Get the first four books of Palgrave's Golden Treasury
>>24704120Well, I do want to get into poetry proper, but I tend to do well focusing on one artist at a time in other media, so trying to do the same here.
>>24703367get an anthology
Here's a suggestion that worked for me: Look up a list of the best English-language poets of the last 200 years, then go on Abebooks and buy $50 worth of used Penguin/whatever copies of their collected or selected works. Put them on a shelf by the toilet or the front door. Then whenever you have some time, like while taking a shit or going to sit in a doctor's office or taking a long bus ride, grab one of them and read some fucking poems.Would I ever have read Gerard Manley fucking Hopkins, or even Robinson Jeffers (whom I now love), or even more famous names like Whitman, if I hadn't had their books of poetry by the door? No, but I did, so now I have a bunch of their poems in my mind and soul forever. Hell, I even did this with a Loeb parallel edition of Pindar, a parallel edition of Holderlin, an English translation of Stefan George, and book one of Goethe's Faust, all things I wouldn't have read if they hadn't just been THERE physically tempting me to make a shit more interesting. Even Yeats I never would have read except while shitting.
