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Friday, March 04, 2005

Meme: Top Poems (influence? possible influence? shit that I like?)

A.R. Ammons, “Easter Morning,” “The City Limits.”
John Ashbery, “Some Trees”
Ted Berrigan, “Words for Love”
John Berryman, “Dream Song 14”
Elizabeth Bishop, “The Filling Station”
David Byrne, “This Must Be The Place”
John Cale, “Paris 1919”
Emily Dickinson, lots of poems.
John Donne, “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “A Nocturnal Upon St. Lucy’s Day”
T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
H.D. “Trilogy”
Brenda Hillman, “Sister Shirt”
Kenneth Koch, “The Art of Love”
Frank O’Hara, “Steps”
Lou Reed, “Sweet Jane”
Paul Simon, “America”
Gertrude Stein, “Tender Buttons”
Wallace Stevens, “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters”
Thomas Wyatt, “They Flee From Me”

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'd like to throw a shout out to Thomas Hardy. I like his poems.