Recently discovered him, thinking of picking up “Wolf”

>>24540703 (OP)
He's fine. Not really my cup of tea, but people enjoy him. If you're reading contemporary poetry and you're posting on /lit/ you would enjoy Jack Gilbert. Try his book "Refusing Heaven."
>inb4 contemporary poetry is... LE BAD!
Whoever is about to reply to this post and say that has not read any poetry since college

>>24540703 (OP)
I read his autobiography which I loved.

I liked Legends of the Fall

>>24540703 (OP)
Good material, bad instincts— slovenly Jeffers, academic 'poet' Bukowski "woe betide my alcoholic pig eye." You'll throw it against the wall every time he declaims about MUH NIXON— he appreciated the outdoors at least, just be on guard for bougie boomer coomerism and extremely dated stillborn George Carlin shittakes. But his novellas are consistently good by comparison; one can readily see his influence on McCarthy with material like Wild God Of This World.

>>24541461
He's objectively middling and transcendental, epochal canon worthy poets are MIA.

>>24541461
On the subject of contemporary poetry, I haven't read much but enjoyed the early work of Ocean Vuong. Any other recs?

>>24542057
What was the book of his you enjoyed the most?