[New-Poetry] What are the books a poet should own?

[Roger Day]

I've just gone through the process of sifting my book collection,
reducing the books from 3 largish shelves to 1. Fair breaks my heart.

So, what remains?

Dictionaries and grammar (at least one non-English),
Syntax, translation and language - Saussure's Linguistics,
Performance - Peter Brooks' On Theatre  (anything by Brecht or Stanislavski),
Philosophy - Russell's History of Western Philosophy.
Something from your childhood - Wind In The Willows
Picture Books - Rackham, Duriac, Kay Nielsen
Fonts, Typography
Science Fiction - Bradbury or Vonnegut or Ballard. EE "Doc" Smith,
Heinlen or Cordwainer Smith for the trashier moments.
History - History of French Literature, Beevor's Stalingrad, Rise and
Fall of the Third Reich
Cooking - Classic italian cookery or french cooking. Even poets have
to eat sometimes ...
LitCrit - Literary Theory

Roger

On 10/22/06, Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini at tin.it> wrote:
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> I was good at maths, and wouldn't dislike going back to read/study some;
> philosophy, literature, just drop in some books in the bag...
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> From: JforJames at aol.com
> Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2006 7:36 PM
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> In a message dated 10/21/2006 2:13:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net writes:
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> The bullshit component of both is close to 99%.
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> bad Bob
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> Here's an idea prompted by this quote from Bob's collected aphorisms.
> If you were to stock a poet's personal library, filling it with the
> essential
> and odd books a poet should own or have ready access to, what titles
> would be in it?
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> Note: no books of poems allowed...since those books are presumed
> to be in libris already.
> Finnegan
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