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Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft

10 best books like Fooling with Words: A Celebration of Poets and Their Craft (Bill Moyers): The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink, In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop, The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems, Fuel, Poet's Choice, Collected Poems, White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006, Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters, The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry, Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink
AuthorKevin Young
ISBN1608195511
Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular joy for the mouth. Poems about food make these satisfactions explicit and complete.

Of...
In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop
AuthorSteve Kowit
ISBN0884481492
Ideal for teachers who have been searching for a way to inspire students with a love for writing--and reading--contemporary poetry.


It is a book about shaping your memories and passions, your pleasures, obsessions, dreams, secrets, and sorrows into the poems you have always wanted...
The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems
AuthorFrances Mayes
ISBN0156007622
The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun brings poetry
out of the classroom and into the homes of everyday readers.

Before she fell in love with Tuscany, Frances Mayes fell in love with verse. After publishing five books of poetry and teaching creative writing for more than twenty-five...
Fuel
AuthorNaomi Shihab Nye
ISBN1880238632
Hidden

If you place a fern
under a stone
the next day it will be
nearly invisible
as if the stone has
swallowed it.

If you tuck the name of a loved one
under your tongue too long
without speaking it
it becomes blood
sigh
the little sucked-in...
Poet's Choice
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156032678
Edward Hirsch began writing a column called "Poet’s Choice" in the Washington Post Book World in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns, some of which have been revised and expanded, to present a minicourse in world poetry. Poet’s Choice includes the work of more than...
Collected Poems
AuthorJane Kenyon
ISBN1555974287
Jane Kenyon is considered one of America's best contemporary poets. Her previous collection, Otherwise: New & Selected Poems, published just after her death in 1995, has been a favorite among readers, with over 60,000 copies in print, and is a contemporary classic.

Now at the ten-year...
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems, 1946-2006
AuthorDonald Hall
White Apples and the Taste of Stone is the definitive lifetime work of an American master -- with a bound-in audio CD of selections read by the author.

One of the most significant poets of his generation, Donald Hall has garnered numerous accolades and honors, including the Frost Medal from...
Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
AuthorElizabeth Bishop
ISBN1598530178
Robert Giroux and Lloyd Schwartz, editors James Merrill described Elizabeth Bishop's poems as "more wryly radiant, more touching, more unaffectedly intelligent than any written in our lifetime" and called her "our greatest national treasure." Robert Lowell said, "I enjoy her poems more than anybody...
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorJ.D. McClatchy
ISBN1400030935
Dazzling in its range, exhilarating in its immediacy and grace, this collection gathers together, from every region of the country and from the past forty years, the poems that continue to shape our imaginations. From Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and Adrienne Rich, to Robert Haas...
Cries of the Spirit: More Than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality
AuthorMarilyn Sewell
ISBN0807068497
Brimming over with the inspirational words and thoughts of some of our finest writers, Cries of the Spirit is a beautiful sourcebook of poetry and prose in praise of life and all that it entails. Here women's voices fill the age-old silence about matters central to their experience-from menstruation,...
Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered
AuthorCatherine Bowman
ISBN0375713158
Starting in 1995, NPR’s All Things Considered began presenting poets reading their own works. Introduced by “poetry DJ” Catherine Bowman, these popular short segments allowed listeners to experience poetry as a kind of verbal music, recalling its roots as a spoken art form. Word of Mouth,...
Given Sugar, Given Salt
AuthorJane Hirshfield
ISBN0060959010
In this luminous and authoritative new collection, Jane Hirshfield presents an ever-deepening and altering comprehension of human existence in poems utterly unique, as William Matthews once wrote of her work, in their "praise of ceaseless mutability as life's central splendor."

In poems...
Animals as Teachers and Healers: True Stories and Reflections
AuthorSusan Chernak McElroy
ISBN0345409906
"In their innocence and wisdom, in their connection to the earth and its most ancient rhythms, animals show us a way back to a home they have never left."
So says Susan Chernak McElroy, a cancer survivor who credits much of her triumph over terminal illness to the love of the animals in her life. From...
Risking Everything: 110 Poems of Love and Revelation
AuthorRoger Housden
ISBN1400047994
“Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” —Mary Oliver

This luminous anthology brings together great poets from around the world whose work transcends culture and time. Their words reach past the outer divisions to the universal currents of love and revelation...
The Collected Poems
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393322947
The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. But despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz remains ardent in celebrating life....
Sweet Machine
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN0060952563
Mark Doty's last two award-winning collections of poetry, as well as his acclaimed memoir Heaven's Coast, used the devastation of AIDS as a lens through which to consider questions of loss, love and identity. The poems in his new collection, Sweet Machine, see the world from a new, hard-won perspective:...
Healing Earthquakes
AuthorJimmy Santiago Baca
ISBN0802138144
Combining a stunning lyrical intensity with a profound exploration of the human soul, Healing Earthquakes uses poetry to conjure a romance, from beginning to end. Jimmy Santiago Baca introduces us to a man and woman before they are acquainted and re-creates their first meeting, falling in love, their...
Favorite Poems Of Emily Dickinson
AuthorEmily Dickinson
ISBN0517259222
I was drawn to this collection by the format: short lines, short stanzas, short poems, and simple titles and rhymes. Her personal history is also impressive. She wrote these for herself, without a thought of publishing them. However, with a few exceptions, I didn’t care for the poems – too obscure—the...
Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0887483364
Some poems from Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison, by Ted Kooser:

1. Perfectly Still This Solstice Morning

Perfectly still this solstice morning,

in bone-cracking cold. Nothing moving,

or so one might think, but as I walk the road,

the wind...
Ain't I a Woman! A Book of Women's Poetry from Around the World
AuthorIllona Linthwaite
ISBN0517093650
Most people who are going to find this book probably have at least a cursory background in women/race/class studies, and I don't think this book's poems offers many new perspectives from those fields. However, what this book does offer is a plethora of wonderful voices and words from around the world...
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