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10 best books like An Introduction to Poetry (X.J. Kennedy): Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, A People and a Nation [with Atlas], Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry, Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College), The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology, Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft, A Poet's Guide to Poetry, The Norton Anthology of American Literature: American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C), Collected Poems, 1951-1971

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060929480
A Gate Enables passage between what is inside and what is outside, and the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives is the fundamental theme of these nine essays.

Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes...
A People and a Nation [with Atlas]
AuthorMary Beth Norton
ISBN0618093338
A People and a Nation is a spirited narrative that challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Its thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the...
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry
AuthorLaurence Perrine
ISBN0155826107
Sound and Sense in a nutshell:

Poetry is deep and thought-provoking. Let me tell you exactly how and what you're supposed to think about it.

No, sorry, it doesn't work that way. Telling me what to think kills the process of allowing me to think for myself, and I feel like that defeats the...
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry
AuthorDavid Mason
ISBN0072819596
WESTERN WIND is an introduction to the elements of craft that make poetry sing, a superior anthology of classic and contemporary poetry, and a guide for students to poetics, writing about poetry, and critical theory. In this text, two well respected poets bring their love of the craft of poetry into...
Beowulf and the Fight at Finnsburgh (College)
AuthorUnknown
ISBN0669212121
Although Tolkien fans will no doubt disagree, Klaeber's Beowulf is undoubtably the most important work on the poem ever produced and after ninety years is still the most authoritative edition of the text.

First published in 1922, one of the most exciting periods in Beowulfian studies and...
The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: A Poetry Anthology
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0060924209
This is one of my favorite all-time poetry anthologies. I picked it up at a discount bookstore in San Francisco, back when I was still a reader searching for the right books. And I swear, back when I was reading mostly fiction and memoir, and my depression was making nonsense of my writing, this book brought...
Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0688177921
Fooling With Words is a collection of interviews of poets conducted by television journalist Bill Moyers at the Dodge Poetry Festival.

The Dodge Poetry Festival seems enormous and a bit weird - audiences in the thousands show up to hear some of the best poets in America read, and they clap and...
A Poet's Guide to Poetry
AuthorMary Kinzie
ISBN0226437396
A Poet's Guide to Poetry brings Mary Kinzie's expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwestern University to bear in a comprehensive reference work for any writer wishing to better understand poetry. Detailing the formal concepts of poetry and methods of poetic...
The Norton Anthology of American Literature: American Literature 1865-1914 (Volume C)
AuthorNina Baym
ISBN0393978990
Why Norton? I'm glad you asked, friend! There are many schools of thought on anthologies, some negative, some positive, all fascinating. Of course, if you're buying this because it's a university textbook then really you have no choice; for the rest of us, there's more than meets the eye.

The...
Collected Poems, 1951-1971
AuthorA.R. Ammons
ISBN0393321924
I haven't finished reading ALL the poems here, but am going to take a break for awhile (I've read almost one third, from various time periods in this collection). I forget how I stumbled upon this poet--I think he was quoted on an anarchist site that Lara sent me (believe it or not)--but he is one that I'll...
The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces
AuthorMaynard Mack
ISBN0393971430
These texts have been selected and prepared by expert scholars and translators who are also committed undergraduate teachers. Like all Norton Anthologies, the Expanded Edition in One Volume of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is foremost a teaching anthology, edited to meet the needs...
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries
AuthorDavid Damrosch
ISBN0321105796
The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2A / 0-321-10579-6

This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged...
The New American Poetry, 1945-1960
AuthorDonald M. Allen
ISBN0520209532
With more than 100,000 copies sold, The New American Poetry has become one of the most influential anthologies published in the United States since World War II. As one of the first counter-cultural collections of American verse, this volume fits in Robert Lowell's famous definition of the raw in American...
Splitting an Order
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN1556594690
One of the "Big Indie Books of Fall 2014"—Publishers Weekly

Paterson Poetry Prize, 2015

"Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. His lines are so clear and simple."—Michael Dirda,The Washington Post

“Readers [of Splitting an...
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart
AuthorRoger Housden
ISBN1400045630
Ten Poems to Open Your Heart is a book devoted to love: to the intimacy of personal love and lovemaking, to a loving compassion for others, and to the love that embraces both this world and the next. This new volume from Roger Housden features a few of the same poets as his extraordinarily moving Ten Poems...
Acolytes
AuthorNikki Giovanni
ISBN0061231312
When her work first emerged during the Black Arts Movement, Nikki Giovanni immediately became one of the most highly regarded and controversial poets of the modern age and her popularity continues today as she is celebrated in song, verse, and popular and literary circles.

Now this remarkable...
The 20th Century in Poetry
AuthorMichael Hulse
ISBN0091940176
This ground-breaking anthology presents in chronological order over 400 poems written in the twentieth century. The authors, both published poets themselves, give an overview of each period of history, while notes to the poems place each one in its historical context and trace the century's poetic...
No Thanks
AuthorE.E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings, along with Pound, Eliot, and Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language and also as one of the most inventive American poets of his time....
John Singer Sargent
AuthorCarter Ratcliff
ISBN0789207486
Sargent's enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful reappraisal by prominent art critic Carter Ratcliff, who shows us the surprising breadth of the artist's work. Never before has a book so thoroughly represented that variety: 110 lavish color plates and more than 200 halftones convey the brilliance...
The Half-Finished Heaven
AuthorTomas Tranströmer
ISBN1555973515
From the Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature

The contemporary Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer is a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature and has a prestigious worldwide reputation. Robert Bly, a longtime friend and confidant of Tranströmer's, as well as one of his first translators,...
Poetry for Dummies
AuthorThe Poetry Center
ISBN0764552724
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." St. Augustine called it "the Devil's wine." For Shelley, poetry was "the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds." But no matter...
Case Studies in Abnormal Psychology
AuthorThomas F. Oltmanns
ISBN0471731129
Now completely up-to-date, this in-depth casebook takes mental disorders from the realm of theory into the complex reality of human lives. The new seventh edition explores the full range of psychopathologies and types of patients. The 23 cases focus on symptoms, the client's history, treatment,...
"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare
AuthorJohn Clare
ISBN0374528691
Hail, humble Helpstone ...
Where dawning genius never met the day,
Where useless ignorance slumbers life away
Unknown nor heeded, where low genius tries
Above the vulgar and the vain to rise.
--from "Helpstone"

"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare is the first anthology...
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