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• smprk · Mar 30, 2015 · Recommends

  …blank sheet of paper. Your name itself suffices; What other poem can excel that ? Rumi - http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/875661.Rumi Gulzar - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10289313-selected-poems

  on “Ask HN: Who are your favorite poets?” ↗
• lioeters · Apr 18, 2022 · Recommends

  …high school I discovered a book of poems by Pablo Neruda, with the Spanish original and English on pages side by side. It was a wonderful reading experience, and I learned quite a lot from it. Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition)

  on “The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)” ↗
• gPphX · Jan 12, 2016 · Recommends

  …Yukio - Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, The Mitford, Jessica - American Way Of Death, The Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita Norman, Howard - Bird Artist, The Norris, Frank - McTeague O’Hara, Frank - Selected Poems Orwell, George - 1984 Orwell, George - Inside The Whale And Other Essays Packard, Vance - Hidden Persuaders, The Pagels, Elaine - Gnostic Gospels, The Paglia, Camille - Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence…

  on “David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (2013)” ↗
• cannam · May 10, 2025 · Recommends

  …- sent in 31 different entries, by post, under false names and with varying levels of absurdity. He didn't win. You can find them at https://www.ubu.com/ubu/pdf/moore_spleen.pdf, or in his published Selected Poems, along with an essay (written afterwards) about translation. Worth looking out. (I particularly admire the sarcastic one that begins "I'm like The Winner of The Competition / The one who wrote the strong,…

  on “Fleurs du Mal” ↗