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

Thu Feb 5 16:26:19 EST 2009

50 Contemporary Poets: The Creative Process 
<http://www.amazon.com/50-Contemporary-Poets-Creative-Process/dp/0679303170/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1233868699&sr=1-6>  
-Alberta Turner

jforjames at aol.com wrote:
> 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 Unive rsity 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. Harcourt 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. Wr iting 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. The 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 Library. 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.
> 0A
>
> 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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