[New-Poetry] Re: optimistic poems

[Suzanne Baran]

Daisaku Ikeda is best. He is a UN peace proposal writer, poet,
essayist, lecturer and president of a lay Buddhist organization called
SGI.

http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=64841914

On 5/8/07, Skip Fox <skip at louisiana.edu> wrote:
> Whitman would be the obvious choice (_Song of Myself_). Sandburg on the
> resilient progression of the lower classes (_The People, Yes_). Marianne
> Moore on the Allied sacrifice in WWII ("In Distrust of Merits," "'Keeping
> Their World Large," "We Call Them Brave," though the last is problematic),
> and Hilda Doolittle on defying the Nazi aggression ("These Walls Shall Not
> Fall" in her _Trilogy_).
>
> I'd certainly not turn him onto the likes of Ella Wheeler Wilcox or even
> Longfellow.
>
> It's easy to see some poems by poets like Hart Crane, Robert Duncan, Ted
> Berrigan, Richard Brautigan, and Gary Snyder as optimistic (and even some
> good ones by Emily Dickinson), but not in the social historical sense of the
> query.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Barry Spacks
> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 1:32 PM
> To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
> Subject: [New-Poetry] Re: optimistic poems
>
>
> Had the following post from a local sculptor today --
> any suggestions available for him in his search for
> optimistic poems?
>
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
>
>   I am working on a project and would love some references for poetry
> on shaping
> the future.  It is important that the poetry or prose focuses on our
> ability to change
> things for the better. Any help or recommendations would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks for anything you can supply (optimism lately in short supply),
>
> optimistically,
>
> Barry
>
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