Jilli - you convinced me.
I had a credit so for my birthday, I purchased the book on Audible.
And you're sure this isn't just some fanboy thing? 'Cause I've fought more than a couple pimply, overweight vamps that called themselves Lestat.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Nov 17, 2014 4:56:16 am PST #22849 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Toddson - Nov 19, 2014 10:50:52 am PST #22850 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I HAD to share: this review from Smart Bitches. If you have someone watching over your shoulder, don't click.
WindSparrow - Nov 20, 2014 3:18:52 am PST #22851 of 28343
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Well, it's book review. Of course it belongs here. I'll mention it in Bitches because people are looking for distraction there.
Calli - Nov 26, 2014 7:57:56 am PST #22852 of 28343
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
So, poetry. I read it pretty intensively back in college (i.e., 2+ decades ago), but not many works past 1930, except Plath and Mary Oliver. I'd like to read more and learn a bit about the mid- and late-20th century writers, especially the women. I suspect I'd enjoy the Beats. Does anyone have any suggestions for good places to start, please?
DavidS - Nov 26, 2014 10:39:32 am PST #22853 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I'd like to read more and learn a bit about the mid- and late-20th century writers, especially the women. I suspect I'd enjoy the Beats. Does anyone have any suggestions for good places to start, please?
Beats were kind of a boys club so there aren't a lot of women associated with that movement.
Some of the better known women poets from that era that have some connection to the beats: Diane di Prima, Joanne Kyger (married to Gary Snyder at one point, but an excellent writer herself. Came to more prominence later), ruth weiss.
Not a beat but of that generation (slightly later) Denise Levertov.
More contemporary, I love Sharon Olds.
Elizabeth Bishop is - I think - one of the best American poets of the midcentury.
Sylvia Plath of course. Anne Sexton.
Steph L. - Nov 26, 2014 10:58:12 am PST #22854 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Rita Dove (former Poet Laureate, Ohioan, alumna of my college [which helps with the whole Paul Ryan thing]). [link]
Naomi Shihab Nye. [link]
Adrienne Rich. (The poem here [link] I almost used at our wedding, but it's a little *too* intimate to have read in public. Not sexy, just...it kind of guts me. In a good way.)
Maya Angelou.
Amy - Nov 26, 2014 11:00:07 am PST #22855 of 28343
Because books.
Oh, Rita Dove has some wonderful stuff.
Steph L. - Nov 26, 2014 11:06:23 am PST #22856 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Lucille Clifton is another good one. And Margaret Atwood wrote some good poetry.
flea - Nov 26, 2014 11:25:05 am PST #22857 of 28343
information libertarian
I would look for an anthology, like, say an anthology of 20th century american women poets, which I just made up but probably exists, and get a snippet of all of the above, and then see who you like and go deeper.
Calli - Nov 26, 2014 11:49:41 am PST #22858 of 28343
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Thanks, y'all. I picked up a couple of anthologies at the library, and I'll look for the names above.