Avant Garde poetry?

Question

I want to read more GOOD avant garde poets, I love Charles Baudelaire, any more poets that you know of similar to him?

Answer 1

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Avant-garde? It is not really the appropriate term for Baudelaire, I think.

If you like Baudelaire, I would recommend Gérard de Nerval:
http://www.glaced.digitalspace.net/list/…
http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/19/de…

Arthur Rimbaud:
http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/indexe.html

Stéphane Mallarmé, who was also greatly influenced by Baudelaire:
http://studiocleo.com/librarie/mallarme/…

Hugo von Hofmannsthal:
http://www.jbeilharz.de/poetas/hofmannst…

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Asker's Comment:

this is great, i love stephane mallarme now that i read him, thanks!

Answer 2

Brendan Behan, Liza Douldble, Poe, Swift.

Answer 3

Rimbaud was of course his great follower. But that's a pretty broad term. There are poets who could be called "avant garde" and have nothing in common with Baudelaire. The beat poets for example, or the New York School of poets.