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Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

10 best books like Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Jane Hirshfield): How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing, The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry, In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop, The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, The Art of the Poetic Line, Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry
AuthorEdward Hirsch
ISBN0156005662
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make a difference. In a marvelous reading of verse...
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
AuthorOno no Komachi
ISBN0679729585
Japanese poetry is said to be originated in human heart and mind and grows in to the myriad leaves of words. The collection of poems The Ink Dark Moon is from the Heian era of Japanese literature, the era is considered as Golden Age in the history of Japanese literature. The language in that era was very inflected...
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
AuthorRichard Hugo
ISBN0393309339
Richard Hugo was that rare phenomenon of American letters—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggering Town is Hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously...
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393316548
The Poet's Companion presents brief essays on the elements of poetry, technique, and suggested subjects for writing, each followed by distinctive writing exercises. The ups and downs of writing life—including self-doubt and writer's block—are here, along with tips about getting published...
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 Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach
AuthorRobin Behn
Part of me wants to hate on writing-by-formula, but I like this book a lot and was interested in a lot of the exercises. It's a good read on its own, even if you don't intend to use any of the prompts. After each prompt, the author explains why s/he finds these particular constraints valuable. I liked Agha...
The Art of the Poetic Line
AuthorJames Longenbach
ISBN1555974953
The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes will provide a series of sustained examinations...
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry
AuthorStephen Dobyns
ISBN1403961476
In this new edition of Best Words, Best Order, Stephen Dobyns further explains the mystery of the poet's work. Through essays on memory and metaphor, pacing, and the intricacies of voice and tone, and thoughtful appreciations of Chekhov, Ritsos, Mandelstam, and Rilke, Dobyns guides readers and writers...
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction
AuthorDean Young
ISBN1555975623
In The Art of Recklessness, Dean Young's sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a sort of wild receptivity,...
Rules for the Dance: A Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse
AuthorMary Oliver
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, / As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance," wrote Alexander Pope. "The dance," in the case of Oliver's brief and luminous book, refers to the interwoven pleasures of sound and sense to be found in some of the most celebrated and beautiful poems in...
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
AuthorTony Hoagland
ISBN1555974554
The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to Me


Meanness, the very thing that is unforgivable in human social life, in poetry is thrilling and valuable. Why? Because the willingness to be offensive sets free the ruthless...
The Life of Poetry
AuthorMuriel Rukeyser
ISBN0963818333
The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser is an exploration of poetry-its relationship to the visual and performing arts, its role in our personal lives and in the life of our culture.

Rukeyser begins her exploration by discussing the fear of poetry, a fear she attributes to all imaginative work...
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
AuthorWallace Stevens
ISBN0394702786
In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places,...
Poetry as Survival
AuthorGregory Orr
ISBN0820324280
Intended for general readers and for students and scholars of poetry, Poetry as Survival is a complex and lucid analysis of the powerful role poetry can play in confronting, surviving, and transcending pain and suffering.Gregory Orr draws from a generous array of sources. He weaves discussions of...
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
AuthorEavan Boland
ISBN0393314375
[O]ver a relatively short time--certainly no more than a generation or two--women have moved from being the subjects and objects of Irish poems to being the authors of them. It is a momentous transit. It is also a disruptive one. . . . What is more, such a transit . . . is almost invisible to the naked eye....
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...
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
AuthorRobert Hass
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass considers some of the twentiethcentury poets who bring him pleasure: Robert Lowll, JamesWright, Tomas Transtromer, Joseph Brodsky, Yvor Winters,Robert Creeley, James McMichael, Czeslaw Milosz, and others,in this, his first collection of essays. Originally published...
Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations
AuthorRobert Bly
ISBN0807063932
Part poetry anthology, part critical treatise, Leaping Poetry is a major statement by one of American's most distinguished poets. Bly's thesis is that great works of art contain leaps within themselves: 'A poet who is leaping makes a jump from an object soaked in unconscious substance to an object...
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics
AuthorLewis Turco
ISBN0874513812
The New Book of Forms contains over three hundred verse forms, each succinctly described in prose and, where necessary, with a schematic diagram. Many entries are followed by examples drawn from modern English poems that use the form and by references to well-known poems written in it. Each entry ends...
Poetry and the Age
AuthorRandall Jarrell
ISBN0813021081
About Poetry and the Age:

"Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review

"Randall Jarrell’s book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The...
Writing the Australian Crawl
AuthorWilliam Stafford
ISBN0472873008
I first read Writing the Australian Crawl in the mid-80s when I was working on an MFA degree. William Stafford, a native Kansan, has a deceptively easy-going approach to writing poetry. His first rule is that one must write. In his case, he writes every morning before anyone in his house awakes. Stafford,...
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
AuthorDana Gioia
ISBN1555973701
In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the Atlantic Monthly, and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place for poetry to be part of modern American mainstream...
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry
AuthorLouise Glück
ISBN0880014423
Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness...
Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku
AuthorWilliam J. Higginson
ISBN4770014309
"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...
What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
AuthorAdrienne Rich
ISBN0393312461
An incredibly inspiring and challenging collection of essays on poetry, particularly its politically transformative dimension. While Rich does speak about and from the USA, this is not so much a limitation but an implied challenge to the reader to think through their own context. From the final essay:

"A...
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