Ueno Park, April 2013
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Another stimulating thread from Alfred Corn:
The poetry of place, of geography, of landscapes and cities. Which inevitably involves description. Thoughts? Good models?
- David Parson and 8 others like this.
Danny Rendleman All my books. At least two on Amazon, if you're not too averse to them. All the others out-of-print and rare. And pricey.
Michael T. Young I think Charles Tomlinson is a great example of this type of poetry--all his poetry.
Mike Theune On description itself: a good book for students is Word Painting, by Rebecca McClanahan.- Mike Theune Also, of course, M.H. Abrams's essay "The Structure and Style of the Greater Romantic Lyric," which describes the descriptive-meditative poem. Vital stuff. My fave desc-med poem (which, for some odd reason, Abrams does not include in his list of such poems) is Coleridge's "The Lime Tree Bower My Prison."
Edward Nudelman I think of Frost and even Wordsworth when I think of a sense of place in poetry... Maybe not as specifically, but in the mood and feeling
Carolyn Holmes Gregory W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, Gabriela Mistral, Langston Hughes, W.S. Merwin, Philip Levine, etc., etc.
Jonathan Diogenes Plantagenet What are the greatest city poems? I feel as if place, geography and landscapes have triumphed, historically and numerically speaking. I don't you think we get many city poems until maybe Wordsworth or a little later. Even the Boston-based poems would rather write about the Charles River, next to their city, than Boston itself. I'd like to see more poems about cities.
Brent Fisk Depends on your definition of landscape. Some of my favorite poems do an astounding job of creating a sense of micro-landscapes, the scope and importance of a single room or a dinner table. Laux's "The Tooth Fairy," or CD Wright's "Tours" come to mind.- Joel Sloman Clare and Jaccottet for desciption. Crane and Olson and Jones for myth of place. Baudelaire and Whitman as inhabitants.
Carole Ann Borges The sea permeates just about everything Neruda writes about. Sandburg's "Chicago", of course. In a national sense Ginsburg and Whitman stand out. Synder and Merril. I have to say Pam Uschuck can bring settings alive better than most contemporary (assuming that means living) poets I've read.
Barbara Confino Then of course there is Elizabeth Bishop, but also if you will extend the exploration into prose, novels such as The Alexandrian Quartet, totally centered upon place and for which Cavafy is a central muse.
Susan Reilly All of the above and too many others to list, but Olson and Yeats come immediately to mind, as do lines and places in romance and epic like Gawain and Aeneid; in the odes of Horace; the elegies of Milton and Tennyson. Georgics and pastorals.
Hedy Sabbagh Habra Invisible Cities by Calvino, Borges on Buenos Aires, Octavio Paz, Piedra de Sol about Mexico and El mono gramático (the Monkey Grammarian about India more, Neruda Alturas de Macchu Picchu...- Hedy Sabbagh Habra Adonis wrote lots of poems about Beyrouth, Syria, Lebanon, and invented mythical landscapes. Also Darwish, Shihab Nye, Ghassan Zaqtan
Tad Richards Not as well known as he should be, but Dennis Doherty writes poems of place wonderfully. Here's one:http://willnixon.com/insights/chronogram-doherty
willnixon.comA pair of recurring dreams--one about the site of his greatest joy, the other about a talking deer--led Dennis Doherty to write a poem about yearning and loss.
Stephen Pain I am sure there are lots of Eighteenth century poets who wrote about places and architecture . The whole notion of landscape poetry was revived. I mean Gilpin with his picturesque got the ball rolling.
Allison Hedge Coke 83 Indigenous poets 12 translatorshttp://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2299.htm
Jack Miller D.H. Lawrence: Mornings in Mexico.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornings_in_Mexico
en.wikipedia.orgMornings in Mexico is a collection of travel essays by D. H. Lawrence, first published by Martin Secker in 1927. These brief works display Lawrence's gifts as a travel writer, catching the 'spirit of place' in his own vivid manner.- Jack Miller Also Henry Miller'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colossus_of_Maroussi
en.wikipedia.orgThe Colossus of Maroussi is an impressionisttravelogue by Henry Miller which was first published in 1941 by Colt Press of San Francisco. Set in pre-war Greece of 1939, it is ostensibly a characterization of the "Colossus" of the title, George Katsimbalis, a poet and raconteur. The work is frequently... - Jack Miller Both of the books above greatly shaped and enhanced my appreciation of Mexico and Greece. Not literally poetry but as poetic as prose descriptions of place and time can be.
Dom Zuccone Homer. Wordsworth, Keats, William Carlos Williams, Neruda,Hart Crane, Sigfrid Sasson, Cavafy, Naomi Shihab Nye,
- Jack Miller Basho: Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Interior) (I readSam Hamill's translation before going to Japan last year)
- Allison Hedge Coke These four books I edited into one generous volume of Alaskan and Hawaiian Native poetry by four poets:http://www.saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php...
www.saltpublishing.comdg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and Mahealani Perez-Wendt are four exceptional emerging poets. Their Pacific Rim relationship invited opportunity to publish these four chapbooks in one collected volume. Like effigy earthworks, stone, and bone carvings, the books inclu... 
- Allison Hedge Coke These five books edited into one volume by five mainland Native poets, coming out this spring:http://saltpublishing.com/shop/proddetail.php...
saltpublishing.comAcknowledgements; Editor’s Note; LAURA DA’; The Tecumseh Motel; UNGELBAH DAVILA; Outlaw Neon; KRISTI LEORA; Dark Swimming; LARA MANN; A Song of Ascents and Descents; KATERI MENOMINEE; In Tongues; Biographical Notes - Allison Hedge Coke Ahani, Sing, Effigies, and Effigies II are all steeped in poetry of place from the Indigenous viewpoint... can't get closer than that.... Not my poetry, I just had the privilege of editing them and they are meant for everyone, not just the inside reader, so have at them.... (Word to Silliman, not ethnography...)... contemporary, new poetry, by contemporary Native poets of the Western Hemisphere... Sing has 83 poets from Mapuche to Inupiat...
- Jack Miller William Stanley Merwin is mentioned above. His Hawaii poems deserve recognition here, especially, Anniversary on the Islandhttp://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/.../20110509164744kram0...
iipdigital.usembassy.govW.S. Merwin gives his final reading as Poet Laureate at the Library of Congresson May 4. Hear his reading of “Anniversary on the Island” from that evening. 
Brent Pallas Theodore Roethke's North American Sequence, published posthumously in The Far Field, in 1964, a year after his death. I always return to it.- Allison Hedge Coke On Hawaii, here is poet Brandy Nalani McDougall with a book in Effigies and poems in Sing and Ahani....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K69_kuqBiX8
Born and raised on Maui, Brandy Nālani McDougall is of Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiʻi, Maui, Oʻahu and Kauaʻi lineages), Chinese and Scottish descent. She is the auth... - Allison Hedge Coke and how about the first poet laureate of Hawaii: Kealoahhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OwiU4fMCo0
Kealoha is the first Poet Laureate of Hawai`i. As an internationally acclaimed poet and storyteller, he has performed throughout the world -- from the White ... - Allison Hedge Coke or dg nanouk okpik, Effigies, Sing, Ahani.... Inupiat poet with Bojan Louis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I5NGWCARYc
Edge 59: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers w/Susan Briante, Bojan Louis, & dg nanouk okpik Edge is a series of local and national writers and ... - Allison Hedge Coke There are Natives living in every single state in the US, Indigenous poetry coming out of all of these places..... just saying....
Anna Husain Sandra Cisneros, May Sarton, John Masefield, Toi Derricotte, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Bukowski, Tennyson, Lee Young Li, David Wagoner, Alan Shapiro, Carolyn Forche, Alfred Corn, Primo Levi, Jane Hirshfield, Mary Oliver, T.S. Eliot, Yang Wan-Li, Auden, Louise Bogan, H. D., Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bly, Emerson,- Anna Husain Sometimes seems poets of place are as numerous through history, as stars in the sky, shining brightly, then vanishing... Leaving unending light
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