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

[Anny Ballardini]

Add Leonardo's own Notes, fantastic, take your time to read them all...
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  Biographia Literaria    Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
  In Defence of Poesy    Sir Philip Sidney
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    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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