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Question: What is your favorite book of poetry!?
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DEKA 3 by Pulitzer Prize Nominee, Dr!. Glenn R!. Swetman!.

It is a book of poetry NOTof the Internet, by a man who has published at least 6 other books of poetry!. He is a professor in Mississippi and is famous throughout the world!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Henry David Thoreau's Walden!. I know it's not "poems", but it is poetic, and creative, and nonfiction, and entertaining, and well !. !. !. just down right brilliant; that's what I want to leave behind when I'm dead!.

Right now, besides Dante and Homer, the only other poetry book of poems I own came from Mars!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Oh what a "Wangled Teb" and the other one Schrodingers Cat!.

And my one that will never be published "Other Tales and Mutations"

Yeah and that's it basically I am not very familiar with famous ones but I like Victoria Wood, John Hegly, Pam Ayres and Richard Stilgo the aeroplane blokes and Peter Buckley Hill not many people would know him or like him he's nuts and really greaat!. I have never sought their books though!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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In my book, it's the poets among us that continue to keep the art alive and continue the legacy!.
Thanks to you TD for your lifelong contributions and as many of us have come to realize of late, not without a price!.
With bowed head, my deepest respect!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Les Fleurs de Mal by Charles Baudelaire
La Poésie Complète d'Arthur Rimbaud
The Collected Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(which is a book of his paintings)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Complete Illustrated Books of William Blake
Idylls of The King by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Fureur et Mystère par René Char
The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

I also have a great appreciation of the spoken word of John Trudell, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Bukowski & the lyrics of Johnny Mercer, Leonard Cohen, Peter Gabriel, just to name a few!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Until I get to read DEKA 3!.!.!.!.!.!.!.it is everything Michael Leunig (Austalian Contemporary Cartoonist and Poet) has ever done!. (I am collecting his books slowly - I was hooked right from the first book of his I read - "Bunch of poesy")

"The Works" by English Poet Pam Ayres is another favourite!.
Any book by Henry Lawson - Australian Icon PoetWww@QuestionHome@Com

Without hesitation!.!.!."The Oxford Book of English Verse", 1250-1900, Chosen and Edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1918!.

My personal copy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

A Thousand Years of Irish Poetry!. Some of the greatest poets throughout the ages were Irish and their poetry is rich and meaningful whether they are writing in English or Gaelic!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry!. It is over 1400 pages with biographical info on hundreds of poets and includes their best poems!. All of the poems are thoroughly annotated!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The book of castaways, Oh What a Tangled Web
you remember, the one I'm in!.

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The poems of mars of course' and really you T!.D!. and Elaine and others are my Faves as you all are so darn talented!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Poems and Fragments - Wilfred Owen
The Way Things Are - Roger McGoughWww@QuestionHome@Com

I'm partial to T!.S!. Eliot, but I'll look into that Deka 3 later!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Collected Poems of Charles Olson

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I have been reading Miller Williams these days!.
Love "A Walk in the Woods"Www@QuestionHome@Com

Psalms!.Www@QuestionHome@Com