Where can I find the following Hindi poem:
"Hawa hun hawa main basanti hawa hun,
Suno baat meri anokhi hawa hun,
Jidar chahati hun udar goomthi hun,
Hawa hun hawa main basanti hawa hun." [more inside]
posted by theiconoclast31
on Feb 11, 2007 -
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I don't know shit about poetry but have been enjoying Leonard Cohen, Charles Bukowski, Charles Simic, and Robert Creeley for years. (I mostly like works about relationships, romance, love...) Who else should I read? Also, in addition to "practice", how does one get better at reading/writing poetry. Can you also recommend journals / anthologies / web sites / quarterlies?
posted by dobbs
on Feb 8, 2007 -
39 answers
What sort of online contest should I hold to give away a book of poetry?
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posted by steef
on Feb 4, 2007 -
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PoetryFilter: I (mis)remember a single line of a poem and Google isn't helping me. God (maybe? or some other speaker?) says, "Oh, best blade of grass!" And that's all I've got, and it's probably wrong. Any guesses?
posted by terceiro
on Jan 23, 2007 -
7 answers
Poetry filter:- help me identify the author of this poem and maybe direct me to a volume containing it. The title (I think) is THE CONCEPTION...
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posted by mycapaciousbottega
on Jan 22, 2007 -
8 answers
“These far away places with strange-sounding names…” Where is that phrase from?! I have reason to believe it was first written by a romantic poet (possibly Tennyson, Browning, or Arnold) but I can’t beat the answer out of Google.
Thanks to Google, I know that the line is used in a Bing Crosby song. But that’s definitely not the source I’m looking for.
posted by chickletworks
on Jan 21, 2007 -
7 answers
I need the text of a poem I can no longer recall, one dedicated to William Everson (Bro. Antoninus).
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posted by faineant
on Dec 18, 2006 -
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GiftIdeaFilter (sorry): I'm looking for suggestions for
poetry books for an 8-year old girl. She's an excellent reader and likely well above her target reading level. I thought introducing her to poetry might be a nice change of pace... preferably something she won't finish by supper. Thanks!
posted by Witty
on Dec 12, 2006 -
30 answers
Asking for a friend: I'm looking for poems appropriate for the 4th of July, preferably non-militiristic and not cheesy, that are maybe kind of thought-provoking in a nice, non-threatening sort of way.
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posted by amarynth
on Dec 5, 2006 -
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I want to write a Christmas-themed essay for my book review blog, and I'm trying to come up with some Christmas lit to review. It might be fun, for instance, to gather together a selection of Christmas tripe such as
Santa's Christmas Prayer (link not safe for those who have any literary sensibilities and have just eaten) and go to town on it. Or, at the other end of the spectrum, to write something about Charles Dickens'
A Christmas Carol. Which Christmas novels/stories/poems do you love and loathe? I don't review movies, so text only please...
posted by orange swan
on Nov 28, 2006 -
13 answers
A friend of mine is looking for a poem he thinks is called "White Horses" by the well-known oceanographer Willard Bascom.
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posted by Heminator
on Nov 27, 2006 -
5 answers
Can anyone help me make sense of
this newsstory:
VietNamNet Bridge – Just a few days after the Vietnam Writers’ Association announced the awards for 2006, Ly Hoang Ly, a young Vietnamese poet, sent a letter of refusal to the association.
The Vietnam Writers’ Association awards are the most prestigious ones in the country for written works. This year, the fiction award was given to the book “Boundless rice field” by Nguyen Ngoc Tu, a young writer from the south, while the award for poems was given to poet Huu Thinh, chairman of the association. [more inside]
posted by Kattullus
on Oct 29, 2006 -
4 answers
Poem identification: "There are no (something) rooms. There are no (something) doors."
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posted by Jeanne
on Oct 21, 2006 -
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Except for an early obsession with e.e. cummings, I know nothing about poetry. Can anyone recommend a good book to jumpstart my poetry literacy?
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posted by aparrish
on Oct 13, 2006 -
21 answers
I'm looking for a few lines of poetry that would be appropriate for a 404 page, preferably from somewhat well-known authors. Any suggestions?
posted by sonofslim
on Oct 11, 2006 -
28 answers
Can you recommend a great book about the technical and formal aspects of poetry?
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posted by Iridic
on Sep 15, 2006 -
9 answers
Trying to figure out the name of a poem... it starts something like "no one expects / very much from poets anymore / not flowing prose / or expert sex / or even absentmindedness..." I can't find it anywhere (even the google). Any help?
posted by tngrn
on Aug 24, 2006 -
4 answers
Can anyone recommend any poems about university life? It is for a book group where we're reading some campus novels and we're looking for a poem on the same subject.
posted by janecr
on Jul 19, 2006 -
13 answers
How to (tactfully and successfully) get some major names to look at some of my writing? Of course there is
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posted by exlotuseater
on Jul 18, 2006 -
18 answers
Ogden Nash made quite a splash.
And somewhat darker, Dottie Parker.
Silverstein was near divine,
And all revere old Edward Lear.
But now I suffer from a curse:
My thirst for rhyme has grown perverse!
I need a doctor or a nurse;
My problem is becoming worse.
So lest I end up in a hearse,
Please point me t'wards some more light verse!
posted by Robot Johnny
on Jul 13, 2006 -
59 answers
My dad's birthday is on Monday and I'd like to send him a poem that would be appropriate...
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posted by Oobidaius
on Jul 1, 2006 -
6 answers
Does anyone have the poem Rat It Up by Adrian Mitchell.
I can't find it anywhere on the net.
I have to read this tomorrow to a class of kids and I forgot to buy the book over the weekend. Drats.
posted by mooreeasyvibe
on Jun 25, 2006 -
0 answers
I am working on translating some of
Paul Celan's poems into English. Are there any major differences between my traditional American understanding of poetic analysis and that of German-speaking countries?
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posted by vkxmai
on Jun 20, 2006 -
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Did Sylvia Plath write any villanelles besides 'Mad Girl's Love Song'?
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posted by Firas
on Jun 20, 2006 -
5 answers
"When will I see my companion again?" I recall hearing a
poem including this line (or a subtle variation), but cannot
identify its name or the author. Can you help me identify this poem?
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posted by shinnin
on May 27, 2006 -
3 answers
Bi- and multilingual mefites - in languages other than English, what are the generic rhymes that appear again and again in lyrics and poems?
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posted by RokkitNite
on Apr 19, 2006 -
27 answers
Can anyone produce a translation of Klopstock's poem "
Der Frühlingsfeyer"? By "produce a translation" I don't mean your own (unless you want to!), but I also don't mean "tell me it's in
European Romantic Poetry", since I can't find a copy of that book around nor can I get one in time (by Wednesday). I mean post one, or email me one (in profile), or the like. This isn't schoolwork, though it is
related to schoolwork—you won't be helping me cheat or anything like that. (I found
this translation online but am looking for something a little more faithful, if possible.)
posted by kenko
on Apr 15, 2006 -
3 answers
Here's a shot in the dark: In Czeslaw Milosz's
"The Witness of Poetry" there's a translation of Wislawa Szymborska's "Autotomy" that is different from the Baranczak/Cavanagh translation in her
Collected Works that I'm familiar with. The translation is unattributed -- am I then to infer that the translation is Milosz's?
posted by .kobayashi.
on Apr 5, 2006 -
1 answer
I've recently taken to writing poetry (or more specifically, taken to writing poetry I feel comfortable reciting in public) and I am looking for somewhere to expose myself.
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posted by punch_the_mayor
on Mar 16, 2006 -
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PoetryFilter: Having never read a book of poetry in my life, I picked up a translation of Virgil's Eclogues & Bucolics (
this one) and loved it. Can anyone suggest other, similar poetry I might like? I've seen poetry threads on AskMe before, so there might be someone out there who can help me.
posted by primer_dimer
on Mar 10, 2006 -
12 answers
I have been tasked with reciting a poem at my grandmother's 75th birthday celebration? Any suggestions
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posted by Julnyes
on Feb 10, 2006 -
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I want to build a comparative index of translations for a specific book of poems. How should I do this?
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posted by selfnoise
on Jan 27, 2006 -
11 answers
Lost Poem. This is *not* the poem I'm looking for:
A friend told me
He'd risen above jazz.
I leave him there.
- Michael s. Harper
Rather, that poem is the
epigraph for a much longer poem.
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posted by bingo
on Jan 15, 2006 -
4 answers
I think I'd like to read Paul Celan (in English). Where should I begin? Which volume(s) do I want (my preference is for books currently in print)? Which translators do I want?
posted by .kobayashi.
on Jan 9, 2006 -
8 answers
