Thread 24659096

What's the most obscure book / poem you've read that you don't think anyone else on this board has?

Mine is probably The Day of Doom by Michael Wigglesworth

>>24659096 (OP)
>/ poem
this is easy mode because /lit/ does not read poetry, and /lit/ ESPECIALLY does not read poetry published after ~1930, and if you mention poetry published after ~1930 you'll have some retard screeching about how da heckin cringe faggot joo trannies ruined le heckin based formal verse, even though the type of person who says this is exactly the type of person who has not read poetry since high school or their country's equivalent with the minor exception of skimming a sonnet that another anon posts and replying some inane bullshit like "Simply exquisite." So IDK probably something from my city's small indie poetry chapbook press

>>24659103
So post some good poetry, faggot.

>>24659096 (OP)
When it was dark by Guy Thorne

>>24659096 (OP)
I'm reading this now and it's actually kino

>>24659108
Sure, I like this one by WS Merwin

>>24659096 (OP)
Fall of the Angels by John Polidori

>>24659140
Stop posting this degenerate tranny modernist crap, you scheming Israelite

>>24659629
>ctrl-f "trans," "tranny," "transgender"
>0 results
obsessed

>>24659096 (OP)
It's a bit of cheating as an ESL but Poèmes barbares by Leconte de Lisle (not exactly confidential in France, though not much read) is one of my favourite collection.

>>24660038
Do you have autism?

>>24659624
Simply exquisite!

>>24659096 (OP)
>Battle of the Frogs and Mice translated by Thomas Parnell
the Life of Zoilus part is interesting

>>24660465
kek

>>24659096 (OP)
The most obscure in the sense of circulation is an astonishingly well-researched and well-written volume about the the Calumet Region that was produced by the Indiana Historical Society in the mid 70's I found one in a used book store around 2012 for $35.. As for obscurity in poems how does one even rank such things? I remember reading Carl Shapiro's zany The Fly to a co-worker who didn't see the point of it except as exercise in technique, which is kind or ironic since he enjoyed Zappa.

>>24659103
Pretty sure I’m the only person on this board who has read Self Portrait of Othello despite it winning the Forward and the TS Eliot

>>24659096 (OP)
I picked this up at a Salvation Army. It has no barcode and I'm the only person who rated it on goodreads

>>24659096 (OP)
Nostradamus 1999

>>24659103
jew faggkt trannies ruined verse.
>muh kenneth koch
garbage. all garbage.

I read the whole Book of Mormon cover to cover.

>>24661855
That’s not obscure nor is it impressive, you dumbass faggot

this verse novel from 1860
>ALFRED
>Pooh!
>Pray would you have had her dress always in black,
>And shut herself up in a convent, dear Jack?
>Besides, 'twas my fault the engagement was broken.
>JOHN.
>Most likely. How was it?
>ALFRED.
>The tale is soon spoken.
>She bored me. I show'd it. She saw it. What next?
>She reproach'd. I retorted. Of course she was vex'd.
>I was vex'd that she was so. She sulk'd. So did I.
>If I ask'd her to sing, she look'd ready to cry.
>I was contrite, submissive. She soften'd. I harden'd.
>At noon I was banish'd. At eve I was pardon'd.
>She said I had no heart. I said she had no reason.
>I swore she talk'd nonsense. She sobb'd I talk'd treason.
>In short, my dear fellow, 'twas time, as you see,
>Things should come to a crisis, and finish. 'Twas she
>By whom to that crisis the matter was brought.
>She released me. I linger'd. I linger'd, she thought,
>With too sullen an aspect. This gave me, of course,
>The occasion to fly in a rage, mount my horse,
>And declare myself uncomprehended. And so
>We parted. The rest of the story you know.