I’m trying to get started on the Bradbury Challenge, where you read a poem, an essay, and a short story every day. Right now the biggest challenge is just finding engaging texts, especially when it comes to poetry. I find myself just going back to “the classics” like Shakesspeare, Robert Frost, C. S. Lewis and so on. I’d like to broaden my horizons.
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Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse had some lovely short stories. Mary Oliver and Charles Bukowski are some of my favorite English-language poets but I also enjoy translations of Japanese haikus.
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I enjoyed ‘the rattle bag’ as a poetry collection. There’s also ‘the poetry pharmacy’, which I thought was a nice concept.
Mariana Enríquez writes really great short stories. La Casa de Adela in particular is stunning.
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I like the poems of Eugen Roth, but I don’t knoe if there are any good English translations. For short stories I can recommend Umberto Eco. “How To Travel With A Salmon: and Other Essays” is my favorite.
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Liu Cixin is my favorite SiFi author, Chinese or otherwise, and he has a collection of Short stories called “The Wandering Earth” that I would highly recommend!
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The Cyberiad, by Stanislaw Lem. Haven’t read it since I was a kid, but remember it was awesome.
4 daysI like the Phillip K Dick stories that I’ve read. I should grab a collection myself.
