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• 7/30/2009 8:58 PM Mike Finley wrote:
  I adore Langston Hughes. He is always giving a gift -- which is what poetry is best about. I think he ranks among our very best. He is so generous, and so humble.
  
  Gibran -- often very interesting, occasionally very striking. Ultimately, maybe not so relevant.
  
  Bukowski -- I think he is a bad example to young people. He is a corruption. At the same time, great language. Confusing!
  
  Sexton -- I oppose suicide as a basic value, and wonder if we would love her so much if she had had the courage to live. Poets should teach us how to live, not jump off cliffs.
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  1. 7/31/2009 6:49 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Interesting... and very well said.  I tend to agree on all points.
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     1. 8/1/2009 7:20 PM Comments from Facebook wrote:
        
        
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        Christina Brooks

        The Bukowski is one I've not seen before.. but I just got that particular Hughes one a few weeks ago. but haven't cracked it open yet.. neat.

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        John Burroughs

        I kept re-checking the Hughes out of the library - then finally got one of my own. Bukowski left a ton of poems unpublished when he died - this book is made up of some of them. The Gibran is cool because although I already had several of his individual works, this includes all his major works, including many I didn't have, in one fairly compact volume - it also retains his illustrations. And Sexton is Goddess.

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        Dianne Borsenik

        Hmmm... where does that place ME, theistically speaking?

        Thu at 9:24pm

        
        

        John Burroughs

        Who says we can't have a pantheon?

        Thu at 9:30pm

        
        

        Christina Brooks

        I have all of Gibran's books and a read those early on... but in the individual volumes.. it would be nice to have something with them all together. I'll have to look for that one..

        Thu at 9:31pm

        
        

        Mike Finley

        What a wonderful quartet

        Thu at 9:59pm

        
        

        Dana Aritonovich

        I also have all of Gibran's books! He is genius!

        Thu at 10:12pm

        
        

        Mike Finley

        then you must love tagore.
        
        God respects me when i work, but he loves me when I dance.

        Thu at 10:15pm

        
        

        Lucya W.K. Lebid

        Anne Sexton is one of my favorites as well as Gibran...have to read the other two... thanks for posting!

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        Barbara Hilal

        I love Tagore's "fireflies"

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        Lilliput Review

        Currently reading the complete poems of Sexton for a library program in September that I moderate. Devastating, touching, amazing ...

        Yesterday at 6:30am

        
        

        John Burroughs

        I agree, Don!
        I've not read "Fireflies" yet, Barbara. Will have to check it out....

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• 7/30/2009 10:44 PM B. T. Forsythe wrote:
  Must be in the air. Hardly literature, but I got Addonizio's Ordinary Genius in the mail today. Still trying to learn how to write poems...
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  1. 7/31/2009 6:48 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Today's Kim Addonizio's birthday!
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• 7/31/2009 2:12 AM Teleri wrote:
  Matronomics: One Week Before My 25th Birthday
  
  I wish you were alive, Anne Sexton,
  I'd ask you how it felt:
  To be mother to that "unknown girl"
  at whose altar you once knelt.
  
  I only can know my own story
  I never knew that ward;
  What unknown mother thrust me away
  Her own life she to forward.
  
  KVS
  April 28, 1989
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  1. 7/31/2009 6:50 AM Jesus Crisis wrote:
     Ah, cool....  Thanks for sharing this!
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