Just like with quotes, reading a poem every week is an old habit I used to enjoy and think of with nostalgia, thus I decided to pick it up, again. This time, though I added a challenge to it, to make things more interesting. Several people start the so called Author A-Z challenge to make themselves read more or discover new authors. I thought, I'd do it with poets. And I go mainly for poets I've never heard of before, or if they are truly famous, for those, whose poems I've never read before.
It's amazing how poems find me from week to week. Today, I used a Flavorwire compilation. I picked To you by Kenneth Kock. (Click on the links to read the poem and the Wikipedia page of the poet!) I must admit, I have a killer instinct to pick poems I'd enjoy. This one really spoke to me. While I was still reading the poem I decided to pick out my favourite line, but there are so many, that I should quote half of the poem if I wanted to show you all my favourite parts in it, so I put here the last two lines that really made my heart beat faster. |
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"Best at dawn, when even before I am awake the sun
Receives me in the questions which you always pose."
After reading the poem, I looked up the above mentioned Wikipedia page, where I found the following lines:
"He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry, [...] that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music."
Travel, painting and music. No wonder this poem spoke to me! I guess, I'd rather check out more poets from the New York School.
Do you read poetry? Who are your favourite poets? Are you familiar with the works of contemporary poets? Let me know in the Comments below. (Mind you, I set all comments to moderate, so it may take a while to appear.)
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