Poetry anthology recommendations please

Benny Bunter

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That Breathcrystal one really appeals to me cos of the compound words and neologisms, not that I really understand it yet. But there's a quote from Celan in that anthology that I love where he says "reality is not simply there, it has to be searched and won" by creating new language.

I like all the compound words in Pound and H.D. as well, "hail-scur" and suchlike. Noticed one or two in your book as well actually.
 

luka

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they can be done really badly. hopefully i do them ok. theyre good when theyre good arent they.
 

Benny Bunter

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And a massive pervert. He makes my skin crawl just to look at him.

Fair enough he was a language innovator, but he was far from the only one from around that time, his reputation is massively inflated iyam.

That said, some good bits in Dubliners and portrait.
 

luka

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i really like poetry in translation. it has its own character. it shaped my sense of what poetry is and should and could be.
 

Benny Bunter

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Was gonna say it's cos he knows French. I started a thread about it, bigging him up on his own french transactions and everything but he ignored it
 

luka

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he only knows french. so hes missing out on, eg, rilke, holderlien, celan, heine, just to name some krauts. its very silly.
 

Benny Bunter

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he only knows french. so hes missing out on, eg, rilke, holderlien, celan, heine, just to name some krauts. its very silly.
I can sort of understand it to an extent cos I love Lorca and all the translations I've seen have done my head in, but been loving a lot the German stuff I've read in the PFM anthology (Rilke and Trakl especially). Maybe if I knew German I'd feel the same way about them but I dunno, but I really admire the art of translation and some stuff translates better than others, daft to just dismiss it all.
 

luka

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but also translated poetry has a texture and feel distinctive to itself that is quite exotic and glamourous imo
 
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