My 50 favorite poems of all time (in no particular order)
1) Arthur Rimbaud 'A Season in Hell,' 2) James Schuyler 'This Dark Apartment,' 3) John Ashbery 'A Wave,' 4) Kenward Elmslie 'Girl Machine,' 5) Judy Grahn 'A Woman is Talking to Death,' 6) Joe Brainard 'I Remember,' 7) Ted Berrigan 'The Sonnets,' 8) Frank O'Hara 'For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson,' 9) Alice Notley 'How Spring Comes,' 10) John Wieners 'Act 2,'
posted by Dennis Cooper at 8:34 AM
3 Comments:
Gotta love A SEASON IN HELL... not only one of the greatest poems ever, but one of the best TITLES as well.
shivers...
- garrison
PS - Cool, Dennis, hope to catch you at Skylight. Until then...
that's an interesting John Wieners choice. Of course all his poems blow me away. I've devoted my blog to him a couple of times...I really like "Children of the Working Class," "A poem for record players," "A poem for vipers." I also like "a poem for the dead I know." I could go on forever. Glad to see Elmslie on the list. He's also a very friendly approachable writer like yourself, although he doesn't communicate through email. He was on a reading tour this fall, and a friend and I tried to get an honorarium for him to read here, but couldn't do it. It was a huge disappointment.
Rimbaud never gets old. I've been (very slowly) reading him in french for the first time ever, and I must say it's even more incredible.
My favorite poem of all time is "Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara.
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