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Poets whose collected, selected or volumes of poetry one has on the shelf, excluding poetry and prose in one volume, excluding anthologies.

(The original meme, as seen in [livejournal.com profile] supergee's journal, also specified "They should be there by your choice (as opposed to being texts for courses, etc).")
  • Basho
  • George Bradley (I don't know if this counts as "there by my choice"; it's a Yale Series of Younger Poets winner; I used to read their slush pile, so I got a comp copy)
  • e.e. cummings
  • T. S. Eliot
  • James Joyce (in 1983, I photocopied a library book of Pomes Penyeach)
  • Marge Piercy
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Diane Di Prima
  • A. A. Milne
  • Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Rumi (or should I say Coleman Barks - my favorite translator of Rumi, and I suspect him of being very liberal with his translations)
  • Mark Strand
I'm vaguely embarrassed by how small the list is. But I guess it's not so bad for my having spent 15 years hating poetry (as a result of the slush pile reading) and only recently coming out of that (thanks to a gift of Basho's Narrow Road: Spring and Autumn Passages.).
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