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Ah... most of my poetry is still boxed in my parents basement, so this will be incomplete, and the titles may be misremembered. But these are the books I usually carry with me when I move.

Anna Akhmatova: A collection, bilingual, whose title I cannot remember.

W. H. Auden: Selected Poems and Complete Poems, because I am an Auden geek and really care about the differences between the original and later versions of his early poems.

Joseph Brodsky: To Ourania and Other Poems and something else.

e e cummings: VIVA and another selection--100 poems, maybe?

T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land and other poems

Robert Frost: Collected Poems

Seamus Heaney: The Spirit Level and his Beowulf as well. That's my third Beowulf translation, because I'm a geek who studied Old English in college, along with two other ex-girlfriends of one of my ex-boyfriends, which probably tells you more than you needed to know about my social circle in college.

Kenneth Rexroth: Collected Shorter Poems

Adrienne Rich: An Atlas of the Difficult World and Time's Power. My parents have a lot more Rich at home--her earlier collections and some essays, which I keep meaning to steal.

Muriel Rukeyser: Another collection whose title I can't remember--bought because of a reference in Rich.

Dylan Thomas: Collected Poems. I may have more than one copy of this, which is a bit odd given that I'm not all that fond of most of Thomas.

Walt Whitman: some collection--I never quite got into it.

There are no doubt others which I've forgotten: my poetry shelf is full.

As for the ancient poets, they tend to be for work, but I own multiple translations of the Odyssey and various collections of the lyric poets simply because I like them.

ETA: Cavafy, Collected Poems.

Date: 2003-10-17 01:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nestra.livejournal.com
I own multiple translations of the Odyssey

Not the Iliad?

I ask because I'm curious, and because I personally fall into the category of loving one and dislking the other -- in my case, love the Iliad, want to smack Odysseus around.

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