[New-Poetry] Book of note, plus various books on craft and writing poetry

[jforjames at aol.com]

I just encountered this book on the WomPo list, I thought I'd pass it on...looks like it could be good:

Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry 
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/BOOKS/BID1508.htm


Also, they had a thread going on craft books...here's the list compiled & posted by Joan Mazza:

Addonizio, Kim and Laux, Dorianne. The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to 
Pleasures of Writing Poetry. Norton. 1997


Allen, Donald. Poetics of the New American Poetry. Grove Press. 1974.


Arp, Thomas R. Perrine’s Sound and Sense. Harcourt Brace. 1997.


Behn, Robin. The Practice of Poetry. HarperPerennial. 1992


Bender, Sheila. Writing Personal Poetry: Creating Poems From Your Life 

Experiences. Writer’s Digest Books. 1998


Buckley, Christopher and Christopher Merrill, eds. What Will Suffice: 

Contemporary Poets on the Art of Poetry. Salt Lake City. 1995.


Bugeja, Michael J. The Art and Craft of Poetry. Writer’s Digest Books. 1994.

Bugeja, Michael J. Poet’s Guide: How to Publish and Perform Your Work. Story 
Line Press. 1995.


Citino, David. The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of the Art and Craft of 
Poetry. Oxford University Press. 2002


Cook, Jon, ed. Poetry in Theory: Anthology 1900 – 2000. Wiley-Blackwell. 
2004.


Corn, Alfred. The Poem’s Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody. Story Line Press. 
2003.


Dobyns, Stephen. Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry. St. Martin’s 
Griffin. 1997.


Drake, Barbara. Writing Poetry. Harco
urt Brace. 1983.


Drury, John. Creating Poetry. Writer’s Digest Books. 1991

Drury, John. The Poetry Dictionary. Writer’s Digest Books. 1995.


Elledge, Jim. Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American 
Poetry. Indiana University Press. 1994


Ellmann, Richard. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Norton. 1988


Ferguson, Margaret. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Norton. 1996


Finch, Annie, ed. A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary 
Women. Story Line Press. 1194


Fiske, Robert Hartwell and Laura Cherry, eds. Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, 
Revisions, Discussions. Marion Street Press. 2008


Fox, John. Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and 
Creativity Through Poem-Making. Tarcher/Putnam. 1995.


Fox, John. Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making. Tarcher/Putnam. 
1997.


Fussell, Paul. Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. McGraw-Hill. 1979.


Goldberg, Natalie. Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. 
Shambhala. 1986.


Hall, Donald. Claims for Poetry. University of Michigan. 1982.


Hass, Robert. Twentieth Century Pleasures. W.W. Norton. 1985.


Hirsch, Edward. How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. Harvest. 
1999.


Hirshfield, Jane. Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Essays). 
HarperCollins. 1997.


Hollander, John. Rhyme’s Reason. Yale University Press. 1981.


Hugo, Richard. The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and 
Writing. Norton. 1979.


Kinzie, Mary. A Poet’s Guide to Poetry. T
he University of Chicago Press. 
1999.


Kooser, Ted. The Poetry Home Repair Manual. University of Nebraska Press. 
2005.


Kowit, Steve. In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet’s Portable Workshop. 
Norton. 1997.


Lammon, Martin. Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on 
Poetry. University of Michigan. 1996.


Lehman, David. Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms: 65 Leading Contemporary 
Poets Select and Comment on Their Poems. Collier/Macmillan. 1987.


Longenbach, James. The Art of the Poetic Line. Graywolf. 2007.


Mayes, Frances. The Discovery of Poetry. Harvest/Harcourt. 2001.


Myers, Jack. The Portable Poetry Workshop. Thomson/Wadsworth. 2005.


Oliver, Mary. A Poetry Handbook. Harvest Original. 1995.

Oliver, Mary. Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading 
Metrical Verse. Mariner/Houghton Mifflin. 1998

Oliver, Mary. Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems. Mariner Books. 
2000.


Orr, Gregory. Poetry as Survival. University of Georgia Press. 2002

Orr, Gregory & Ellen Bryant Voigt. Poets Teaching Poets, Self, and the 
World. University of Michigan Press. 1996.


Packard, William. The Art of Poetry Writing. St. Martin’s Press. 1992


Padgett, Ron. Handbook of Poetic Forms. Teachers & Writers Collaborative. 
1987.


Paschen, Elise. Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from 
Tennyson to Plath. Sourcebooks MediaFusion. 2001.


Reeves, Judy. A Writer’s Book of Days: A Spirited Companion and Lively Muse 
for the Writing Life. New World L
ibrary. 1999.


Richards, Mary Caroline. Centering in Pottery, Poetry and the Person. 
Wesleyan. 1989.


Roethke, Theodore. David Wagoner, Intro. Straw for the Fire: From the 
Notebooks of Theodore Roethke. Copper Canyon Press. 2006

Roethke, Theodore. On Poetry and Craft. Copper Canyon Press. 2001.


Rukeyser, Muriel. The Life of Poetry. Paris Press. 1996.


Snodgrass, W.D. De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Bad. Graywolf Press. 
2001.


Sontag, Kate and David Graham, eds. After Confession: Poetry as 
Autobiography. Graywolf Press. 2001


Stafford, William. Writing the Australian Crawl. University of Michigan 
Press. 1978.

Stafford, William. You Must Revise Your Life. University of Michigan Press. 
1987.

Stafford, William. Crossing Unmarked Snow. University of Michigan Press. 
1998.

Stafford, William. The Answers are Inside the Mountains. University of 
Michigan Press. 2003.


Sweeney, Matthew. Writing Poetry and Getting Published. NTC Publishing. 
1997.


Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics. UPNE. 2000.


Wallace, Robert. Writing Poems. HarperCollinsCollegePublishers. 1996.


Webster’s Compact Rhyming Dictionary. Miriam-Webster, Inc. 1987


Woolridge, Susan G. Poemcrazy: freeing your life with words. Clarkson 
Potter. 1996.


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