Furthermore, I think neologism is one of the finest arts in poetry. :)

This copy of Moby-Dick is a reprint of an unbelievably fancy version from four years earlier. Some gorgeous hand-set thing that sold for $1k *in 1979*. You can now pick one up for $22,000, or $50k if you'd like the white-bound version.

I read some for my roommate from my poetry anthology. Refreshing myself on her biography reminded me that I never read The Bell Jar! So that's on the shopping list now.

awesome!!

Coming in late November I'll be reviewing Alan Moore's Jerusalem. Check out Reading Project, if you somehow know of my page but not theirs. It's quite the collective database.

by Viet Thanh. The translated poetry I read was so wonderful and song-like, more so than most poetry by a long shot. My favourite was "Heart sings". I found myself smiling softly quite often, the unknown quality of these translations nonwithstanding.

After listening to the original Vietnamese, I understood much more why they feel so song-like. Thanks again for the recommendation :)

I'm glad you enjoyed "Heart sings" poem, there is also "Waves" and "Noon rooster", are the poems I like a lot. And yes, I think you do realized some of her poems has been set to music a long while now :]] Maybe I would post some of my favorite poem translations to the site and link the sources

That's a wonderful idea!!

Also good news--my bookstore finally got MYRR for me! I finished it in <48hr haha. I would give my review but... there are relevant reasons for which I must wait!

I turned to my old Norton Anthology to see if we had read any of her work in my courses, and I immediately remembered Coal. Her enjambment makes her work very fun to read aloud.

I also read the brief bio on Lorde on Poetry Foundation. My personal favourite line of anything I read was the second from Hanging Fire: "and my skin has betrayed me". To speak of lived experience, this is mine every day! Take care.

To be clear, the line is likely about race and/or puberty, but it really hit home re: autoimmune diseases. I think some variant of that line every week it seems.

Oh, finally, I was excited to hear about *Zami: A New Spelling of My Name* as it brought the term "biomythography" to me. I'm quite passionate about the seamless blending of truth and lies in the context of fiction.

so happy you dived into her work, her legacy and words are so so important to me. and totally agree about the enjambment, she's also such a great orator and and hearing her read her own work aloud is so satisfying

Wow! You're right; she is so very sonorous.

I ended up on a tangent via Wikipedia, finding "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" by Barbauld. It presages the hegemonic rise of the U.S. by 130 years, somehow.

A belated thank you for stating that I had been featured on the front page. I was wondering where all those views had come from. :)

Dear 76 followers, who is your favourite poet? No wrong answers.

I don't follow poetry enough to give a qualified answer. I liked (and continue to like) the poem "Ozymandias" (both versions) even before it became cool again.

That's a completely valid option. I was just considering that if I only cite Wilde and Yeats it'll eventually become evident I never actually went to grad school. Besides, that poem whips.

See, right there, I didn't even know the Smith version. Thank you!

Also, asterion, congrats on making it to front page, gob dam.

i love love audre lorde's work so much, "hanging fire" and "from the house of Yemanjá" were my introductions to her

I don't read much overseas poetry, only known pretty much Vietnamese poets. So I guess Xuan Quynh would be my favorite for her focus on childhood memories and inner self

Sylvia Plath. I find her work to be haunting, beautiful, and relatable in a way that few other poets have managed.

Sorry, extremely busy day today. Plath is one of my faves too. Will be reading all of those tomorrow.

Well... You'll laugh, but it's Edward Lear 😁