Who is your....
Faveorite poet...
Riddle me this... Who is your favorite poet currently writing about religion/ god/ faith? Poems don't have to be iconic or faithful, but who do you dig that touches on/toward/against God?
Riddle me this... Who is your favorite poet currently writing about religion/ god/ faith? Poems don't have to be iconic or faithful, but who do you dig that touches on/toward/against God?
12 Comments:
Geri Doran. Her first book should be out in a few days. It is titled RESIN.
D.A. Powell. G-d's in there, but s/he's hard to find. As expected.
you missed hon fest in hamden today. i'd say joron, william everson, james galvin, cort day all for very different reason. "i'd ask jesus for help, but it always seems like he's the one who needs the help"--galvin. oh...jabes desire for a beginning dread for one single end.
Philip Larkin, of course.
New writers? I always say Whitman, because of this: "In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass." And I sometimes want to say Ezra Pound, but folks get pissed about that connection: "Petals on a wet, black bough" says it, tho, to me. The G word. Or whatever.
Kinnell? maybe. Kinnell if not Jorie. I have trouble with new poets. New meaning contemporary meaning, basically anyone still alive. Brigit Pegeen Kelly is interesting, I think she offers maybe a different way of being religious. And maybe not so much a new way as simply a different one--like Dickey in his time or Plath she just strikes me as being, mm, dangerous, potentially dangerous.
Ammons. Though no longer writing, his work always appealed to me. I would rate "Easter Morning" and "The City Limits" among the top dozen or so religious poems that I know. And, there's science on top of it.
Dickinson of course. I could never stop reading her.
--D
Aaron McCollough
I've already told you this back-channel, but for everyone else's benefit:
David Shapiro, Ronald Johnson, Fanny Howe, Arthur Sze.
Olena K. Davis.
Galway Kinnell, specifically favorite poem is St. Francis and the Sow.
elizabeth
I have to agree with those who said Galway, he knows how to talk about God very naturally and honestly.
Amy Newman's poetry collection Fall.
A.R. Ammons poetry collection of Selected Poems.
Joy Katz poetry collection Fabulae.
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