I don't even know how to respond to this question. The forms and sub-varieties of poetry have ramified beyond my ability to keep track, much like popular and "alternative" music. Name 10 "essential" poets and I'll probably be afraid to read 8 of them because even the basic guides or contexts present them via a barrage of insider vocabulary, which just makes me want to stay farther away. Honestly, much of the time I have no idea what your blog is talking about--but when I get it, it's good, so the fault is my own.
But I've enjoyed Fernando Pessoa, especially under his own name and as Álvaro de Campos. And I've enjoyed them precisely because I can read them without a huge critical apparatus. (My critical apparatus is only average in size, and my therapist told me not to worry so much about it anyway.)
Yeah, it's probably the kind of thing where you shouldn't be able to answer the question. Whatever you dislike you should both forget having read at once and assume isn't necessarily bad, just beyond your immediate capacities or interests. And then keep looking.
Though some things...I think everyone owes it to themself, sans apparatus, to read - some of these people. But my list of necessaries is doubtless overpersonal.
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Date: 2009-03-14 12:37 pm (UTC)But I've enjoyed Fernando Pessoa, especially under his own name and as Álvaro de Campos. And I've enjoyed them precisely because I can read them without a huge critical apparatus. (My critical apparatus is only average in size, and my therapist told me not to worry so much about it anyway.)
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Date: 2009-03-14 07:23 pm (UTC)Though some things...I think everyone owes it to themself, sans apparatus, to read - some of these people. But my list of necessaries is doubtless overpersonal.