20th century poets, D - I
James Dickey
A Dickey admirer, Alison Chaiken, has posted two of his poems, “Pursuit from Under” & “Bums on Waking.” If you like his work (& you will!), follow on to “Dickey, An Appreciation,” from Eclectica ezine.
A Dickey admirer, Alison Chaiken, has posted two of his poems, “Pursuit from Under” & “Bums on Waking.” If you like his work (& you will!), follow on to “Dickey, An Appreciation,” from Eclectica ezine.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
H.D. was 15 at the beginning of the 20th century, but her writing carries into the 21st with ease. She is often associated with the famous men with whom she dallied, but her work speaks for itself. Her AAP page has seven of her poems; you can find a collection of essays & criticism at the Modern American Poetry site.
H.D. was 15 at the beginning of the 20th century, but her writing carries into the 21st with ease. She is often associated with the famous men with whom she dallied, but her work speaks for itself. Her AAP page has seven of her poems; you can find a collection of essays & criticism at the Modern American Poetry site.
Alan Dugan
Alan Dugan, whose seven books of poems were all entitled simply Poems, was known as a poet of World War II, an “ironic and unsentimental” writer, a technical virtuoso whose work used all the varieties of contemporary vernacular & was often funny, focused on the details of quotidian life but always aware of death & metaphysics under the surface.
Alan Dugan, whose seven books of poems were all entitled simply Poems, was known as a poet of World War II, an “ironic and unsentimental” writer, a technical virtuoso whose work used all the varieties of contemporary vernacular & was often funny, focused on the details of quotidian life but always aware of death & metaphysics under the surface.
Alan Dugan
Under the heading “Dugan’s Double Play” (to mark his second National Book Award), NPR has audio files of his 2001 All Things Considered interview & a reading of his poem “Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli.” The New York Times has an audio recording of Dugan’s 2001 reading at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, and several other Dugan poems are online at Plagiarist.com, MIT & Frigate.
Under the heading “Dugan’s Double Play” (to mark his second National Book Award), NPR has audio files of his 2001 All Things Considered interview & a reading of his poem “Closing Time at the Second Avenue Deli.” The New York Times has an audio recording of Dugan’s 2001 reading at the Grolier Poetry Book Shop, and several other Dugan poems are online at Plagiarist.com, MIT & Frigate.
Richard Eberhart
Richard Eberhart was a prize-winning poet, laureate, teacher and mentor to generations of poets. David Graham posted A Student’s Memories of Richard Eberhart here after Eberhart died in 2005.
Richard Eberhart was a prize-winning poet, laureate, teacher and mentor to generations of poets. David Graham posted A Student’s Memories of Richard Eberhart here after Eberhart died in 2005.
Hans Ebner
Take off a hat, toss a libation, read a poem or two or three of Hans Ebner, 1945-1997, editor of The Smudge Review, poet of streets and bars and life, citizen of Detroit and Las Vegas: “tombstones / are death cards / you only get one / so they are / cut from stone.”
Take off a hat, toss a libation, read a poem or two or three of Hans Ebner, 1945-1997, editor of The Smudge Review, poet of streets and bars and life, citizen of Detroit and Las Vegas: “tombstones / are death cards / you only get one / so they are / cut from stone.”
Larry Eigner
My favorite utilization of Web possum bilities, you ask? Why I dive straight off the high board into the deeperest end and check Bob Grenier’s reinterworkings of the poems of the late (as if he were ever anything but on time!) Larry Eigner on Light and Dust Poets.
My favorite utilization of Web possum bilities, you ask? Why I dive straight off the high board into the deeperest end and check Bob Grenier’s reinterworkings of the poems of the late (as if he were ever anything but on time!) Larry Eigner on Light and Dust Poets.
T.S. Eliot
Greg Foster’s TSE Web site is the home of the T.S. Eliot discussion list & boasts the TSEBase Eliot Concordance, where you can search Eliot’s collected poems for the phrase you're trying to place.
Greg Foster’s TSE Web site is the home of the T.S. Eliot discussion list & boasts the TSEBase Eliot Concordance, where you can search Eliot’s collected poems for the phrase you're trying to place.
T.S. Eliot
The texts of Prufrock & Other Observations, his 1920 Poems & The Waste Land (“April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire. . .”) are all in the Bartleby.com archive, together with The Sacred Wood, his 1920 collection of essays on poetry & criticism.
The texts of Prufrock & Other Observations, his 1920 Poems & The Waste Land (“April is the cruellest month, breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing / Memory and desire. . .”) are all in the Bartleby.com archive, together with The Sacred Wood, his 1920 collection of essays on poetry & criticism.
Charles Henri Ford
The Modern American Poetry resource site has a good collection of images of Ford’s collage poems, book jackets, title pages, and illustrations from his magazine, View.
The Modern American Poetry resource site has a good collection of images of Ford’s collage poems, book jackets, title pages, and illustrations from his magazine, View.
Charles Henri Ford
In his last years, Charles Henri Ford did a couple of interviews about his life and work which appear online: in tout-fait online Marcel Duchamp journal, and in Rain Taxi.
In his last years, Charles Henri Ford did a couple of interviews about his life and work which appear online: in tout-fait online Marcel Duchamp journal, and in Rain Taxi.
Robert Frost
Robert Frost is our farmer/philosopher poet, a celebrated American poet whose work is rooted in New England farm life, combining a modernist sensibility and sense of language in traditional verse forms.
Robert Frost is our farmer/philosopher poet, a celebrated American poet whose work is rooted in New England farm life, combining a modernist sensibility and sense of language in traditional verse forms.
Robert Frost
These days we forget that Robert Frost was a dynamic reader, a masterful performer. We are fortunate to have this recording from HarperCollins’ audio division, archived on the Web by Internet Multicasting Service. Lots of Frost texts are at Bartleby.com: A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval & Miscellaneous Poems to 1920.
These days we forget that Robert Frost was a dynamic reader, a masterful performer. We are fortunate to have this recording from HarperCollins’ audio division, archived on the Web by Internet Multicasting Service. Lots of Frost texts are at Bartleby.com: A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Mountain Interval & Miscellaneous Poems to 1920.
Allen Ginsberg
The poet who made us all Truth Tellers departed this world in 1997, but Mouth Almighty Records, voice of poetic truth tellers, brought us his last recording, The Ballad of the Skeletons. And our directory will take you wherever he is on the Web.
The poet who made us all Truth Tellers departed this world in 1997, but Mouth Almighty Records, voice of poetic truth tellers, brought us his last recording, The Ballad of the Skeletons. And our directory will take you wherever he is on the Web.
Allen Ginsberg
The Bard Himself... has been a Jewish Buddhist Queer Beat name of Allen Ginsberg. And his death, like his life, was a defining, orchestrated moment: a beautifully choreographed departure reminiscent of the final lines of “The Ballad of the Skeletons,” his venture into rock stardom at the age of 70: “That’s all Goodnight.”
The Bard Himself... has been a Jewish Buddhist Queer Beat name of Allen Ginsberg. And his death, like his life, was a defining, orchestrated moment: a beautifully choreographed departure reminiscent of the final lines of “The Ballad of the Skeletons,” his venture into rock stardom at the age of 70: “That’s all Goodnight.”
Samuel Greenberg
Michael Smith’s “Samuel Greenberg: American Poet” site on this “poet’s poet” is sleek & comprehensive. James Laughlin wrote his epitaph: “This boy was drunk on words and he poured them forth with a wild, chaotic passion.”
Michael Smith’s “Samuel Greenberg: American Poet” site on this “poet’s poet” is sleek & comprehensive. James Laughlin wrote his epitaph: “This boy was drunk on words and he poured them forth with a wild, chaotic passion.”
Dick Higgins
An original, a heepening in his own write who was a founder of the Fluxus Movement who created the first Happenings, Dick Higgins died in October 1998. Born in 1938, Higgins also published Something Else Press, one of the more out-there small presses. Dig in deep the snowflakes of his influence.
An original, a heepening in his own write who was a founder of the Fluxus Movement who created the first Happenings, Dick Higgins died in October 1998. Born in 1938, Higgins also published Something Else Press, one of the more out-there small presses. Dig in deep the snowflakes of his influence.
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was the unofficial poet laureate of Black American life & culture, a radical democrat at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz/blues lyrical poet, humorous storyteller, political playwright, passionate advocate of African American pride, civil rights & artistic freedom.
Langston Hughes was the unofficial poet laureate of Black American life & culture, a radical democrat at the center of the Harlem Renaissance, jazz/blues lyrical poet, humorous storyteller, political playwright, passionate advocate of African American pride, civil rights & artistic freedom.
Langston Hughes
Visit Hughes’ page at AAP for a brief bio, bibliography & a good selection of his poems; then if you want to study deeper into his work, go to his page at Modern American Poetry for essays & commentary on particular poems.
Visit Hughes’ page at AAP for a brief bio, bibliography & a good selection of his poems; then if you want to study deeper into his work, go to his page at Modern American Poetry for essays & commentary on particular poems.
Ted Hughes
English Poet Laureate, husband & posthumous editor of Sylvia Plath, poet of Crow, Cave Birds, River & Wolfwatching, Ted Hughes stood at the center of controversy like a man in a storm swirling on his beloved Dartmoor.
English Poet Laureate, husband & posthumous editor of Sylvia Plath, poet of Crow, Cave Birds, River & Wolfwatching, Ted Hughes stood at the center of controversy like a man in a storm swirling on his beloved Dartmoor.
Ted Hughes
Read Hughes’ work online at Wolfsoul’s The Beckoning & in Robert Hass’ “Poet’s Choice” column in The Washington Times.
Read Hughes’ work online at Wolfsoul’s The Beckoning & in Robert Hass’ “Poet’s Choice” column in The Washington Times.
Ted Hughes
The Earth-Moon Web site is a great archive of information about Hughes’ life & work (though probably for copyright reasons, none of the actual poems are there). Other good collections of criticism & commentary are Ann Skea’s Ted Hughes home page & The New York Times’ collection of articles on Hughes & Plath.
The Earth-Moon Web site is a great archive of information about Hughes’ life & work (though probably for copyright reasons, none of the actual poems are there). Other good collections of criticism & commentary are Ann Skea’s Ted Hughes home page & The New York Times’ collection of articles on Hughes & Plath.
David Ignatow
David Ignatow was the kind of poet most poets wish they could be -- his heart-rich poems have been called “deceptively plain-spoken.” The tribute written by Harvey Shapiro after his death at the Poetry Society of America site contains both one of Ignatow's poems & a poem written for him by Karen Swenson.
David Ignatow was the kind of poet most poets wish they could be -- his heart-rich poems have been called “deceptively plain-spoken.” The tribute written by Harvey Shapiro after his death at the Poetry Society of America site contains both one of Ignatow's poems & a poem written for him by Karen Swenson.