[New-Poetry] Books A Poet Should Own (the list as it stands)

[JforJames at aol.com]

I've made an attempt to compile the various posts on this subject
into one list...but I might have missed some titles or misfiled  them
under the categories I choose to organize them under....
 
BOOKS A POET SHOULD OWN….
 
Other than a ‘blank book’…
 
General Reference—
 
OED (SOED or Compact Edition)
OED2(3) on CD
 
Dictionaries various: Chambers, Oxford Concise, Websters 3rd
 
Slang dictionaries: Cassells (Johnathon Green) or Beale/Partridge.
 
The Synonym Finder (JI Rodale's)
Thesaurus
 
Linguistics and Grammar    Quirk and/or Greenbaum.
 
Etymology (Skeat) 
 
History of the English Literature (series or single vol.)
 
History of French Literature
 
History of Western Philosophy Betrand Russell 
 
Treasury of the world's greatest letters  Schuster
 
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable
(3 editions, from 1894 through  1992) 
 
Who's What: Aaron's Beard to Zorn's Lemma  Dorothy Rose  Blumberg.  
 
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
 
All Music Guide to Jazz, 4e.
 
(no title given: Fonts, Typography)
 
 
Poetry Reference: Handbooks, Anthologies (forms, metrics, etc.)—
 
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics
(1993 edition, with Brogan's  articles on metrics)
 
(no title given)    Hobsbaum
 
Rhyming Dictionary
 
An Exaltation of Forms
 
A Poetry Handbook    Mary Oliver 
Rules for the  Dance   Mary Oliver
 
Poetic Rhythm    Derek Attridge
 

Poetics, Art, Philosophy, books of Literary Interest—
 
Writing the Australian Crawl   Wm. Stafford
 
News of the Universe   Robert Bly
Leaping  Poetry   Robert  Bly     

The Triggering Town    Richard Hugo
 
Letters on Cezanne    Rainer Maria Rilke
Letters to a  Young Poet  Rainer Maria Rilke
 
Lives of the Poets   Michael Schmidt
 
45 Contemporary Poems:   Alberta Turner 
The Creative  Process 
 
The Book of Sand   Jorge Luis Borges
Borges Selected  Non-Fictions  Jorge Luis Borges
Penguin  (2000) ISBN:  0140290117
 
Predilections: literary essays  Marianne Moore
Viking Press  1955

(no title given)    Alfred Jarry
 
Locus Solus    Raymond Roussel:
 
Exercises in Style   Raymond Queneau
 
The Necessary Angel:   Wallace Stevens
Essays on Reality  and the Imagination
 
A Life of Poetry   Muriel Rukeyser
 
In Search of  Duende          Federico  Garcia Lorca (trans. by Di Giovanni 
and Maurer) 
 
Lyrical Philosophy       Jan  Zwicky
Wisdom & Metaphor    Jan Zwicky
Gaspereau Press  (Canada)
 
Notebooks    Cezanne
 
The Gift:    Lewis Hyde
Imagination and the Erotic  Life of Property
 
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei Eliot Weinberger and Octavio Paz,  
editors
Moyer Bell Ltd. (1987) 
 
(no title given)   Browning
 
(no title given)   Propertius
 
(no title given)   Catullus
 
Like a Writer    Francine Prose
 
Philosophical Investigations  Ludwig Wittgenstein 
 
Against Method    Paul Feyerabend 
 
Synthesis of Form    Christopher Alexander
 
Almanac of the Dead   Silko
 
Sacred Hoop     Gunn Allen
 
Journal of Albion Moonlight  Kenneth Patchen
 
John Henry Days    Colson Whitehead 
The  Intuitionist       Colson Whitehead
 
The RSVP Effect    Halprin
 
VAS     Tomasula
 
House made of Dawn   Momaday
 
The Golden Dawn   Israel Regardie
 
Steps to an Ecology of Mind  Bateson
 
Poetics of Space   Gaston Bachelard
 
>From feathers to iron   John Clarke
 
ABC of Reading   Ezra Pound
Guide to  Kulchur   Ezra Pound
Literary Essays   Ezra  Pound
 
On Longing (or any subsequent)  Susan Stewart
 
(no title given)    Gramisci
 
Any real book (not journal of...) Harlan Hubbard
 
Francis Bacon    van Alphen
 
(no title  given)            Annie  Finch
 
Linguistics    Saussure 
 
(Performance/theatre)          Brecht 
Stanislavski
 
On Theatre      Peter Brooks
 
Practical Criticism   I.A. Richards
 
How Can A Poem Mean   John Ciardi
 
(collections of criticism)   T. S. Eliot
 
(essays, no titles given)  Kenneth Burke
 
Of Manywhere-at-Once   Bob Grumman  


The Three Perfections:   Michael Sullivan
Chinese Painting,  Poetry, and Calligraphy
Publisher: George Braziller; Revised edition (October  1999) 


Multum in Parvo     Carl Zigrosser
an essay in  poetic imagination
 
National Geographic (odd issues, chosen at random)
 
Poetry & the Age    Randall Jarrell
 
(essays, no title given)   Donald Justice
 
Worlds into Words:    Diane Middlebrook
Understanding  Modern Poems  
 
Poetry in our Time   Babbette Deutch
 
(no title given)    Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
 
(no title given)    Sir Philip Sidney
 
(Journals, edited by Wagoner) Theodore Roethke
 
Leonardo    Ralph Steadman
 
Angela’s Ashes   Frank McCourt
 
(no titles given)    Italo Calvino
 
(collected writings)   Eugenio Montale
 
 
Various & Sundry—
 
The Idiot    Dostojevsky

Pornography    Witold Gombrowicz
 
Stalingrad    Beevor 
 
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
 
Cabeza de Vaca    Haniel Long
 
Science Fiction -    
                        Bradbury 
Vonnegut     
Ballard  EE 
"Doc"  Smith,
Heinlen 
Cordwainer 
 
Wind In The Willows
 
(Picture Books)   Rackham 
Duriac 
Kay  Nielsen
 
 
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