I'm getting ready to tackle a project and thought I'd cast out a wider net to get input. So here's a question for the poetry folk: who do you think are the essential poets of the 1970s?
I've got my personal list, influenced by what I like and have been able to find and read readily--but I know it's only a smattering of what's out there. So I'm just floating this.
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Great question and I look forward to learning your list!
I'd vote Gregory Orr, Robert Bly, Mark Strand
oh my! i have to add some feminist love to your list, rj! diane wakoski especially, but also anne sexton and margaret atwood.
Thanks for playing, kids!
Bren: Bly & Strand are on my list, but I hadn't thought of Orr.
Amy: Wakoski is likewise on my list but I hadn't thought of the others...for some reason I think of Sexton as a 60s poet...but her influence obviously stretches...
Adrienne Rich.
no, you're right . . . sexton is 60s, more . . . the death notebooks was published in the 70s, my fave, so i think i just lump her into that decade. lol.
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