tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post7415496092061691665..comments2024-02-25T09:45:48.931-05:00Comments on Lally's Alley: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL BOOKS BY POETSLallyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-58269280815996931102009-06-26T10:56:09.328-04:002009-06-26T10:56:09.328-04:00RJ, great choices. I also forgot to add a local fa...RJ, great choices. I also forgot to add a local favorite of mine, the poet Jose Funes only book—"41" poems. And Bob, glad you dug Tom Clark's poem I linked to. I wonder if you had to go through it to dig it. I hope not, because there's a lot of great stuff in it outside our shared histories. And TC, thanks for the comment, and you may be right about sheer poetry regarding The Pisan Cantos, but every book on this list is a favorite of mine and I believe well worth reading and savoring the unique writing in each.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-5496110064976808162009-06-26T10:18:52.885-04:002009-06-26T10:18:52.885-04:00I would have to include "The Narrow Road to t...I would have to include "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Basho. I reread it every five years or so. And Kerouac's "The Railroad Earth."<br /><br />Can't help with the "X," "Y," or "Z," though ...RJ Eskowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09951452784489009865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-53621231835330826932009-06-24T16:50:05.957-04:002009-06-24T16:50:05.957-04:00Lal--Many thanks for that link to Tom Clark's ...Lal--Many thanks for that link to Tom Clark's blog. I just read his poem there, "Lines Not Written Wearing Mouse Ears," and I guess I laughed out loud at least a half-dozen times. The poem's a gem, an atlas of the miscues of adolescence for ex-altar boys, with background music provided by the popular tunes of the 50s, true country-wide: for you in East Orange,for Clark in Chicago or Wilmette or Des Plaines, and for me in southwestern Iowa. Good stuff, bro, as good today as it was then.<br /> Bob BernerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4567168789336947243.post-6294431079924039602009-06-23T17:55:05.806-04:002009-06-23T17:55:05.806-04:00Swell post, Michael. Inclusive, yet provoking the...Swell post, Michael. Inclusive, yet provoking the mind to instant lists of further candidates. But you've covered the field nicely.<br /><br />And the winner is... Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos.<br /><br />(Silent bent old man with face like stone shuffles forth to impassively accept statuette, then evaporates.)<br /><br />Thanks for the link to "Mouse Ears". It's part of a set of autobiographical "street" poems, current Depression-Epoch. Though I'd rather it had been a rose garden, etc. Vincent Katz has plans to bring the set out as "The New World," Libellum Books, in November, so that we will be in effect affiliated tell-all autobiographists, my brother, at least for the nonce. (Though perhaps all this self revelation is actually conceptual, and we don't know it?)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com