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Wilma D.
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December 17, 2007
I love Alice Fulton's mix of wordplay, humor and range. For the uninitiated,
Dancescript with Electric Ballerina is an excellent, accessible book to begin with. Here's a link to her website: http://people.cornell.edu/pages/af89/
(Someone please tell me how to make this a hot link)
I want to discover new pots too, so please recommend your favorite!
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I also love Oscar Wilde...
and here on Gather, I have to say Bhawana's work and also John Walter's...her's I understand quite well - it resonates with my own spirit - John's is fabulous but I would love to read it in Spanish - once I begin reading Spanish more...Salud.
So true. As William Carlos Williams said, "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."
Poetry is not some secret language that ordinary people can't understand. Billy Collins and Mary Oliver are two perfectly easy-to-read poets. Admittedly, Alice Fulton is more difficult. But there is plenty of poetry that you can just read and enjoy. Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac features such poetry every day.
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I will visit the site and, who knows, maybe Alice Fulton will become my favorite poet!
(P.S., thanks for the onion pointer!)
I think songwriters count too! Lisa Loeb is one of my favorite singers because of the depth and complexity of her lyrics.
he has an amazing 'voice'
and tells a decent story