Leslie Scalapino: “One’s observation of mind is like an experiment to see what you are going to come up with. There is not going to be any objective observation of something. There is only going to be more mind stuff …”
source: Primary Trouble: an anthology of contemporary poetry, edited by Leonard Schwartz, Joseph Donahue, and Edward Foster
Who are your favorite contemporary poets?
ReplyDeleteI haven't been asked that in awhile.
ReplyDeleteLet me think. Hm.
ReplyDeleteThree living poets who I look forward to reading more of:
ReplyDeleteDavid Trinidad
Clark Coolidge
John Yau
Two (fairly recently) dead poets I look forward to (re)reading:
Anne Sexton
Frank O'Hara
Latest enthusiasm:
Gregory Corso
I also collect favorite poems and my binders are filled with poems by all sorts of poets -- from Leslie Scalapino to Donald Hall to Werner Aspenstrom to Ko Un.