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I love you, and I love re-curioused.

Learning what you run into on Reddit in terms of poetry, by the way, is always interesting. The curious coincidence of more than one radical poetry nerd championing the poetry of Weldon Kees is welcome indeed; indeed we are in twilight days, zoned out by rose of graying nosegays. Since you mentioned (and always do so mention) anthologies, the following is a tremendous fact I wanted to get into the video but failed to do so. I believe I referenced Conrad Aiken's great anthology of American poets in which Master Aiken includes nine poems by Kees; but there is another anthology that includes twice (!) as many poems as Aiken does of Kees: the original "Naked Poetry" anthology from 1969, compiled by Stephen Berg (now of "The American Poetry Review" fame) and Robert Mezey (a poet and a translator of Borges) includes 18 poems by Kees, three of which are Robinson poems.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan Sounds like you've got some great older anthologies and that Kees was duly championed in them. That reddit thread, which came up in a google search, was from about 2012 and you can be reassured that Weldon Kees has a quiet following. You are not alone.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan I love you too and that volume of Weldon Kees has been added to my wishlist. How can people resist reading poetry when there's so much to explore?

@@poetrycrone6061 I don't know how they resist, but we're going to ensure future readers don't miss out on poetry.

You're too flattering. I always wanted to be a teacher, so your comments in this response are very kind.

I am relieved I got through "Leak Street" because my eyes were tearing up. I had read it probably a hundred times between discovering the book a year ago and making the video earlier today and it is actually more difficult to withhold the leakage.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan The impact of reading a poem out loud sometimes catches me off guard as well.

I agree, especially in the unexpected ones which pop up across the book as a whole, as opposed to the ones which appear at the level of the individual poems.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan: I have just uploaded a video on Sylvia Plath, so really enjoy this confessional poetic of vulnerability & fractured states of mind. Thanks for this.

This comment was more encouraging than it could ever have anticipated. And yes: we do indeed have eerily similar stories.

It's saved my life countless times.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan: ah, yes. Contemporary poetry features on my channel. I really look forward to your poetic ruminations.

Hi Jonny! I'll check out Roark's books if I come across them. I watched your video in which you mentioned Marguerite Young's poetry. I ordered it when it came out. I even exchanged e-mails with the publishers about poetry. I have been savoring it since I have spent so much of my adult life looking for Young's poetry after falling in love with her novel many years ago. You may not remember, but many, many years ago we conversed in the comments of some sort of video (I forget which) about Butcher's Crossing.

Jonathan Hoffman is very difficult to find any information about since he didn't really publish in his lifetime, making this City Lights paperback our only source of his poems - and only half the book is his poems. As for Philip Lamantia, this is the volume that introduced me to him, but shortly after finding the Lamantia/Hoffman volume, (providentially) I came across the "Selected poems" part of this videos' readings come from. Same week, different places. Had never heard of either before except in Kerouac and Ginsberg's obscure references to both poets.

Classic. Such a great book. Brisk and meditative. I love that some of the poems aren't left untitled, but instead are headed with the word "Poem". Marjorie PErloff wrote a really wonderful book about O'Hara subtitled "Poet Among Painters".

@@TheBookedEscapePlan Yes, it is firmly at the top of my To Be Read. I like what she writes about poetry and its visual aspects. It's delightful to see a few videos on UA-cam of Frank O'Hara either reading one of his poems or - best of all - writing a play with a painter and answering the phone in the middle of it, to a friend who tells him his dreams, out of which he picks a few ideas to type into the play - while being filmed by a TV crew for a documentary. (!)

Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a magnificent trio of stories. I read it as a teenager and have no idea how many times I have revisited the whole book.

More like caffeine. I've never been one for allergies, only analogies.

You're not crazy. It's just not a very good video.

@@TheBookedEscapePlanUnderstood, can you at least tell me the other books (maybe 2) mentioned in that one besides Rexroth’s? I know it was a male author fwiw

Troupe is truly tremendous. I don't know what to do about my recent Troupe overdose. Donald Hall is someone very special to me. His passing a few years ago hit me very, very hard at a vulnerable time. I do believe we have exchanged briefly on Ammons; Ammons has mattered a great deal to me almost as long as Donald Hall. Did we really not chat about Gary Snyder? I really thought we had. Snyder is truly amazing. I have admired his work for a very long time. I can't believe you and I haven't talked about Snyder! I really thought we had had a "nature poem" exchange about Snyder earlier this year, or maybe late 2023.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan We might have chatted in comments about Snyder and Ammons but you hadn't done videos about them. I will have a very long rambly video up in response to your question about the poets/books important to me. If you don't have time for the video, there's a list of what's mentioned in its description box. Hope all is going great with you this summer.

@@poetrycrone6061 I wish there were a more effective, immediate way for me to tell you that I am listening to your video as I type this. - SW

I think Yevgeny Yevtushenko is and incredible poet. He was a Soviet dissident. Tess Gallagher was an enormously talented American poet. Richard Hugo is interesting because I think his name is known but not his poems. He also comes from the same part of the world I do. It also occurs to me I've just put up a video about my personal favorite modern poets, so that could be seen as a source for recommendations. But there are some other ideas that I don't even mention in that video since they are incredible poets but not personal favorites.

Thanks for asking, but the way! This is among my favorite areas of reading and I love to talk about poetry. It is hard to say what poets you are likely to be familiar with from this time, and that does make judging who is "lesser known" difficult. If my evaluation turns out to be wrong, and you are familiar with the poets I have recommended (and the ones in my video on my favorite modern poets) then do let me know and I will scrounge up more recommendations!

Richard Howard, much like Kathleen Raine, did a lot of translation work from French into English. I have a book by Roland Barthes "On Racine" translated by Howard. Also, of course, Richard Howard translated "The Little Prince" at one point, and many grew up with that translation.

Thank you for the kind words and the suggestion! I would prefer to become better at speaking and annunciating such things as names than bypassing such deficiencies via a typed record. It is a problem I have and would prefer to work on it than completely ignore it. I am thrilled you caught the top-two though. They really are both remarkable poets.

I'm so happy to be helpful! That was more than I could have ever imagined. I also wish your two favorite poets could be translated so I could read what you love. Those wouldn't happen to be Kurdish poets, would they?

@@TheBookedEscapePlan Oh you’re amazing! Thank you! Yes, they really are.

My heart goes out to you; I live in an enormous city erected in the least-hospitable desert in the country and I can count on one hand the number of people I can trust to have intelligent, thoughtful conversations about serious books with.

Who is? I didn't quite follow that.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan You are! Many of us just read fantasy and romance. 🤣

@@caryagos6112 I actually read a lot of genre stuff when I was a kid. There's nothing wrong with genre books. I just need more out of life than that, and I spend an awful lot of my life reading.

These two books really do stand as pillars in my mind. They aren't the only two; I had a goal to keep literature at the center in this video. But when it comes to literary works, they are two of the Big Ones for me.

Then all I do is for you, Heather, and for the crickets, the many "me"s Out there, in the fields chirping every limb In parentheses, every line, every note Cast out across the seas bypassing the mote.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan we're here for the form and function, the lilting speech and thought clouds direction

Hi! There are a few good ones that come to mind. Diarmaid MacCulloch did a very thorough book on the whole period simply titled "The Reformation," and that is a great place to start. A personal favorite of mine is Michael Massing's 2018 book "Fatal Discord" which covers the Reformation via a dual-biography of Martin Luther and Erasmus Desiderius of Rotterdam. I haven't been able to stop thinking about Massing's book since I first read it when it came out. There are dozens of other books that come to mind, but those are both great starting places for different reasons. MacCulloch is a specialist in the history of Christianity in general and in the Reformation in particular. Michael Massing in an Afterward to the book is the opposite: he is a journalist by trade and grew up in a Jewish household and so the Reformation became of interest to him via different channels. It is thoroughly researched and feels as though it could have been written by a specialist and so is very impressive.

This is so flattering that I must know in what context Ruben at "To Readers it May Concern" mentioned me on his channel. Was it his John Barth video? I haven't watched it yet; I've been reading Barth since I was a teenager, and so haven't prioritized the video, but I do want to watch it because Ruben is great, and I talk about Barth often. I love Chris Via at "Leaf By Leaf;" we have a lot of tastes in common and have bonded over Lydia Davis and such. But I simply do not have the time or resources to make the sorts of videos he does. We do two different things, and his thing is much better than what I will ever do.

We have so many common interests! What are the odds? It's nice to meet you, Elaine. Cartography: I collected maps as a child and pinned them to my walls, and in my late-teens had my love for cartography reignited while reading a chapter in Boorstin's "The Discoverers" on the dead-end period of cartography in the Middle Ages. As for the Reformation, I've been fascinated by it for as long as I can remember; I cannot for the life of me trace such a fascination back to its origin point. As for England, In don't believe In mentioned my interest in it in this video, but I did just pick up Trevelyan's "English Social History" and Frank Kermode's "The Age of Shakespeare," which I read already; I admire Frank Kermode's literary criticism in general and another of his books on Shakespeare in particular, but it was also quite the treat - one subject may call it providential - that Kermode uses the backdrop of the English Reformation to contextualize Shakespeare. My very favorite poet, Richard Howard, who wrote a blurb for the book (Providence) was correct to point out that one of the great gems is Kermode's bibliography. And I am a sucker for as good bibliography.

Growing up my mom let me put a world map in the bathroom so I could learn the capitals of countries around the world. I went to a little girls club called “Calvinettes” - named so for John Calvin. How’s that for an origin story? haha My most recent book on London England is Henry Mathew’s London Labour London Poor. Looks like I have a few books to read. I’ve been meaning to get to Invisible Man, and I’m curious about Richard Howard. My favourite poets or the Romantics, especially Wordsworth. Nice chatting with you.

@@elainedejong2806 The Romantics also run through my favorite poets! I'm writing a book right now that attempts to argue a continuity of the Romantics through certain strains of 20th-century poetry. And I do hope you find some Richard Howard's poetry somewhere; he's not widely known but he is very well-regarded. Many of his great poems are these elaborate dialogues between historical figures, but some of my favorite poems are those of Howard's such as the one titled "Oystering".

I’ve read Kermode’s “The Age of Shakespeare”. It is an excellent survey of Shakespeare’s life. Have you ever read James Shapiro? His book entitled “A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare” is poetry.

@@elainedejong2806 I have not read Shapiro's book! I have seen it around before. If you say it is poetry, it must be worth reading.

I found one such book by Tulard thanks to your recommendation and it sounds fascinating. The title for it in English is "Napoleon: The Myth of the Savior." Does that sound like one you would be familiar with?