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@ which ever books you enjoyed the most. It just came to my mind , I’ve never really read a history book. Thank you.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan which ever books you enjoyed the most. It just came to my mind , I’ve never really read a history book. Thank you.

An impossible question to answer in a comment. Fiction: classics or moderns? With regards to history, I hope I prompted you enough to narrow the inquiry in my reply to your comment on another video: Era? Subject? and so on. Are you looking for recommendations? It depends, with fiction, on who you already like, and with history on what you are already interested in.

@ I like the fiction of Denis Johnson, Stanley elkin and Barth. I would love to get some recommendations for my this years TBR. I’ve no specific interest in a specific area/ time of history. I just want to read some well written history. I would also like if you got some recommendations on funny literary books. Thanksp you so much for the reply.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan I like the fiction of Denis Johnson, Stanley elkin and Barth. I would love to get some recommendations for my this years TBR. I’ve no specific interest in a specific area/ time of history. I just want to read some well written history. I would also like if you got some recommendations on funny literary books. Thanksp you so much for the reply.

@@Dougstanhope9 I'm so glad to find a fellow Barh/Johnson/Elkin reader! Especially Elkin. What a terrifically funny writer. No one else reads him except you and I, probably. I think anyone who knows to group such disparate writers together probably has a good sense of what they already like. I would say to just trust your gut when you find a writer. But if you like Johnson, I would check out Barry Hannah. For Elkin, Sam Lipsyte. Maybe William H. Gass, but if' you've read these three, you've probably read Gass. For Barth, tragically, you will find no one to compare him to. That was a one-of-a-kind talent with no analogs in existence. Herman Melville I suppose comes closest.

@ nooooooooo, I was waiting for your reply for so long… I have read most of the authors you have recommended.. please recommend some funny and history books. Thanks for the reply.

Ha! I don't choose the thumbnails. I just let whatever the default is stand. Thanks! I've been filling out essay prompts for scholarships related to my subject, and I've been having a blast doing it.

And, I should add, Maurice Sendak is something of a bat-signal to me as well.

I had already owned a copy of Toilers of the Sea in the Heritage Press hardcover; I had rescues it from being recycled because it's not in the best of shape, but I am a sucker for woodcut illustrations, and the Heritage Press hardcover has them. But I was compelled to read it through that really nice paperback from Smith & Taylor, which is a new imprint of the small press "Unnamed Press," and I wanted to both support them and finally read the book, since "LEs Miserables" is one of my very favorite novels, and I love "Notre Dame de Paris" as well. But yes, Toilers of the Sea was incredible, and incredibly strange in the best way.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan ... sounds like a book I'd love to read!!

I've just spent a couple of hours editing and preparing a batch of poems and sent them to both Rattle and Poetry. These days, who knows when one will hear back from a magazine, but I'm proud of my recent batch. Prior to that, I spent many hours filling out essay responses to the aforementioned scholarship offers for my major and economic circumstances. Don't rush things, Jen. You will be back when you are ready. You have plenty enough going on. Have I ever told you that I've read your poetry, by the way? I like "Coming Home After the Storm" it a lot.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan How cool that you're submitting poetry! It helps mentally to have a set of second choice journals in mind to send to if you get rejected. The quicker you turn poems around, the less you worry about rejection. That said, it would be super exciting if you get accepted by either of those zines and I'm sending positive vibes. I don't feel rushed to return. I'm sure I won't be consistent to start but youtube is a hobby and hobbies shouldn't be stressy. As it turns out, I am not THAT Jen Pearson. But I'm very glad you've let me know I've got a namesake who's published a book of poetry. I may reach out to her. Jennifer Pearson is a fairly common name. About 15 years ago, the person who turned up when my name was googled was a sky diver. I'm not that Jen either. 😄 The first video I'm going to post on my return is one that asks non book related questions. I'll add a bit about not being this other Jen P. There may be others who've made a similar mistake so I'm glad you let me know about this. Snowing today in TN!

You're so very kind! :) Neal from Leafy Concern, Jen from Poetry Crone, yourself, and I, should really start a "New York School Dead Poets Society". I mean it.

No, no, thanks TO YOU for watching and commenting. I've been trying to get around to a companion video of this video for over a year for Geoffrey Wolff's celebrated biography, Black Sun. But my life has been very busy. I've finally moved between states and hope to record soon. I've got tons of notes for videos, book Geoffrey Wolff's work is important to me, almost as much as his brother's.

When it comes to literature, you've gotta trust your gut about what you like.

Thanks! It's less so a matter of rules and more so a sense for personal organization.

I love you, and I love re-curioused.

Learning what you run into on Reddit in terms of poetry, by the way, is always interesting. The curious coincidence of more than one radical poetry nerd championing the poetry of Weldon Kees is welcome indeed; indeed we are in twilight days, zoned out by rose of graying nosegays. Since you mentioned (and always do so mention) anthologies, the following is a tremendous fact I wanted to get into the video but failed to do so. I believe I referenced Conrad Aiken's great anthology of American poets in which Master Aiken includes nine poems by Kees; but there is another anthology that includes twice (!) as many poems as Aiken does of Kees: the original "Naked Poetry" anthology from 1969, compiled by Stephen Berg (now of "The American Poetry Review" fame) and Robert Mezey (a poet and a translator of Borges) includes 18 poems by Kees, three of which are Robinson poems.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan Sounds like you've got some great older anthologies and that Kees was duly championed in them. That reddit thread, which came up in a google search, was from about 2012 and you can be reassured that Weldon Kees has a quiet following. You are not alone.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan I love you too and that volume of Weldon Kees has been added to my wishlist. How can people resist reading poetry when there's so much to explore?

@@poetrycrone I don't know how they resist, but we're going to ensure future readers don't miss out on poetry.

You're too flattering. I always wanted to be a teacher, so your comments in this response are very kind.

I am relieved I got through "Leak Street" because my eyes were tearing up. I had read it probably a hundred times between discovering the book a year ago and making the video earlier today and it is actually more difficult to withhold the leakage.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan The impact of reading a poem out loud sometimes catches me off guard as well.

I agree, especially in the unexpected ones which pop up across the book as a whole, as opposed to the ones which appear at the level of the individual poems.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan: I have just uploaded a video on Sylvia Plath, so really enjoy this confessional poetic of vulnerability & fractured states of mind. Thanks for this.

It's saved my life countless times.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan: ah, yes. Contemporary poetry features on my channel. I really look forward to your poetic ruminations.

Hi Jonny! I'll check out Roark's books if I come across them. I watched your video in which you mentioned Marguerite Young's poetry. I ordered it when it came out. I even exchanged e-mails with the publishers about poetry. I have been savoring it since I have spent so much of my adult life looking for Young's poetry after falling in love with her novel many years ago. You may not remember, but many, many years ago we conversed in the comments of some sort of video (I forget which) about Butcher's Crossing.

Jonathan Hoffman is very difficult to find any information about since he didn't really publish in his lifetime, making this City Lights paperback our only source of his poems - and only half the book is his poems. As for Philip Lamantia, this is the volume that introduced me to him, but shortly after finding the Lamantia/Hoffman volume, (providentially) I came across the "Selected poems" part of this videos' readings come from. Same week, different places. Had never heard of either before except in Kerouac and Ginsberg's obscure references to both poets.

Classic. Such a great book. Brisk and meditative. I love that some of the poems aren't left untitled, but instead are headed with the word "Poem". Marjorie PErloff wrote a really wonderful book about O'Hara subtitled "Poet Among Painters".

@@TheBookedEscapePlan Yes, it is firmly at the top of my To Be Read. I like what she writes about poetry and its visual aspects. It's delightful to see a few videos on RUclips of Frank O'Hara either reading one of his poems or - best of all - writing a play with a painter and answering the phone in the middle of it, to a friend who tells him his dreams, out of which he picks a few ideas to type into the play - while being filmed by a TV crew for a documentary. (!)

Pale Horse, Pale Rider is a magnificent trio of stories. I read it as a teenager and have no idea how many times I have revisited the whole book.

More like caffeine. I've never been one for allergies, only analogies.

Troupe is truly tremendous. I don't know what to do about my recent Troupe overdose. Donald Hall is someone very special to me. His passing a few years ago hit me very, very hard at a vulnerable time. I do believe we have exchanged briefly on Ammons; Ammons has mattered a great deal to me almost as long as Donald Hall. Did we really not chat about Gary Snyder? I really thought we had. Snyder is truly amazing. I have admired his work for a very long time. I can't believe you and I haven't talked about Snyder! I really thought we had had a "nature poem" exchange about Snyder earlier this year, or maybe late 2023.

@@TheBookedEscapePlan We might have chatted in comments about Snyder and Ammons but you hadn't done videos about them. I will have a very long rambly video up in response to your question about the poets/books important to me. If you don't have time for the video, there's a list of what's mentioned in its description box. Hope all is going great with you this summer.

@@poetrycrone I wish there were a more effective, immediate way for me to tell you that I am listening to your video as I type this. - SW

Richard Howard, much like Kathleen Raine, did a lot of translation work from French into English. I have a book by Roland Barthes "On Racine" translated by Howard. Also, of course, Richard Howard translated "The Little Prince" at one point, and many grew up with that translation.

Thank you for the kind words and the suggestion! I would prefer to become better at speaking and annunciating such things as names than bypassing such deficiencies via a typed record. It is a problem I have and would prefer to work on it than completely ignore it. I am thrilled you caught the top-two though. They really are both remarkable poets.

I'm so happy to be helpful! That was more than I could have ever imagined. I also wish your two favorite poets could be translated so I could read what you love. Those wouldn't happen to be Kurdish poets, would they?

@@TheBookedEscapePlan Oh you’re amazing! Thank you! Yes, they really are.