Another meme going around

[redbird]

This one is to list poets you have books of poetry by (as distinct from their being included in anthologies, or having a novel by someone who also writes poetry). I got it from marykaykare but I think it started with oursin.

Note: cattitude and I share a book collection, but I'm not listing anything he got that I'd never look at. This may not be complete--the books aren't organized--and includes things I haven't looked at in ages.

W. H. Auden
Jim Carroll
H.D.
Emily Dickenson
T. S. Eliot
John M. Ford
Judy Grahn
Marilyn Hacker
Homer (or another writer of the same name)
Ursula Le Guin (yes, I also have most of her novels)
Denise Levertov
Edna St. Vincent Millay (I think the first poetry I bought with my own money)
Pablo Neruda (a mix of bilingual editions and English-only)
Dorothy Parker
Adrienne Rich
Sappho
May Sarton (though I found I prefer her prose)
William Shakespeare
Dr. Seuss
Jo Walton
Frederick Winsor (The Space Child's Mother Goose)

I have actually met five of the poets named above; no prizes for identifying them, given how many of the others died before I was aware of them, in many cases before I was born.

[I may edit this later if something jumps out at me; I'm not listing things I bought on someone's recommendation, put down quickly, and haven't picked up again. (Addenda after looking at other people's lists in italics.)]

Comments

[redbird]

I'm tempted to argue, but then I'd have to define poetry. Maybe later.