Who is your favorite poet(s) and why?

[Altamont Ravenard]

Raymond Queneau for his 100,000 billion poems (really. and no, I haven't read them all ) and the rest of his Oulipo work.

AR

 

[Mycanid]

Wow ... another version/translation of Matsuo Basho's works has fallen into my hands of late. MUCH better than the first version I read.

Btw - am I the only one in here who reads/enjoys Basho? In all the lists I don't remember him coming up once with anyone else. :\

 

[Wild Gazebo]

Boring but true:


Wallace Stevens
T.S. Elliot
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams

I've also come to really appreciate:

Robert Pinsky
Michael Ondaatje (sp??)


Sometimes I like to sift throught the cracks of verse as opposed to being bludgeoned with it.