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

Thu Feb 5 18:03:51 EST 2009

Oy, makes me drowsy just looking at that list.
Hal

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:26 PM, TheOldMole <Opus40-01 at opus40.org> wrote:

> 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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