Momus is indisposed; he asked me to answer this one for you.
Momus doesn't really read poetry, although he did when he was younger. He particularly doesn't like that parochial Larkin type stuff or that histrionic Plath type stuff. As a young man he read Rilke, Rimbaud and the Symbolists. He likes Shakespeare. He can't think of too many contemporary poets he admires, maybe someone like Snider.
I've actually been in bed with one of my glaucoma headaches.
Poets who've meant a lot to me: Brecht, Robert Lowell, Rilke, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Peter Porter, Michael Hoffmann, Michael Donaghy, Osip Mandelstam, Paul Celan, Ian Hamilton Finlay. More recently I've discovered Finlay's son, Alec Finlay. And I like Tao Lin's poems!
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Re: Poetry
Date: 2008-10-03 04:00 pm (UTC)Momus doesn't really read poetry, although he did when he was younger. He particularly doesn't like that parochial Larkin type stuff or that histrionic Plath type stuff. As a young man he read Rilke, Rimbaud and the Symbolists. He likes Shakespeare. He can't think of too many contemporary poets he admires, maybe someone like Snider.
Re: Poetry
Date: 2008-10-03 05:52 pm (UTC)Re: Poetry
Date: 2008-10-03 06:12 pm (UTC)Poets who've meant a lot to me: Brecht, Robert Lowell, Rilke, W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Peter Porter, Michael Hoffmann, Michael Donaghy, Osip Mandelstam, Paul Celan, Ian Hamilton Finlay. More recently I've discovered Finlay's son, Alec Finlay. And I like Tao Lin's poems!
Re: Poetry
Date: 2008-10-04 05:03 am (UTC)