Poetry in English

"The Brubury Tales is a modern version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Los Angeles just after the 1992 riots. Seven security guards on the graveyard shift swap tales in an impromptu storytelling competition for Christmas vacation time.

A 65,000 word novel written entirely in rhyming verse, The Brubury Tales honors Chaucer and other classical writers, including Boccaccio, Dostoevsky, Poe, Twain, Crane, Bierce, Gilman, Saki, O Henry, Anderson and Khayyam.

"The Brubury Tales is a landmark book, in what is going to be -- and already is -- an exceptional, distinguished literary career." --Carolyn See of The Washington Post

Nr. 31 in Englische Bücher > Belletristik > Lyrik > Epische Dichtung

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Ayame's Love: An Anime in Broken Sonnets Ayame's childhood is shattered by violence and revenge. Rescued from homelessness by a librarian, Ayame sets out as an adult determined to write a story for herself.

An acrobat and a salesman travel to a village that is famed for its lovers. Can either of them win over the complicated girl that neither of them can move on without?

Ayame's Love is a long narrative poem of an epic scale written in decasyllabic verse.

The best mind-boggling overwhelming
"sign posts for the reader's journey to madness" (Stephen Booth):
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Yale Nota Bene)

Reading for a lifetime

If time remains: Thomas Hardy (various poems)

Beowulf *lol* booooring but one should have read some bits of it.

And, yeah, not to forget John Milton's "Paradise lost"

Some more modern stuff: why not listen to Lenonard Cohen eg or Tom Waits, Johny Cash... Lots of great lyrics in modern music.

Daily Doses & Vital Verses by Dominae Primus.

Commercially released,Daily Doses & Vital Verses is a throwback to the days of woven verses and reflective, spiritual and philosophical prose. A book with dual nature, one that of a poet and another of an observer of existence.

Daily Doses & Vital Verses is a book with two portions, celebrating wisdom and the art of verse weaving. One serving for every day of the year. Short thoughts to ponder, ruminate and cultivate. Followed by eloquent verses that move the spirit.