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

Wed Nov 8 09:38:39 EST 2006

Welll, as long as we're being comprehensive here - how about R.H. Blyth's HAIKU (four volumes). 
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  Perhaps add: Lighter, J. E. _Random House Dictionary of American Slang_. 3 vols.

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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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