Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
10 best books like Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (Eavan Boland): The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Understanding Poetry, The Life of Poetry, On Poetry, Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985, Answering Back: Living Poets Reply to the Poetry of the Past, Collected Poems
| Author | Mark Strand |
| ISBN | 0393321789 |
Poetry's Ingredients: Mark Strand and Eavan Boland Explore Form
Explaining beauty is hard work. But distinguished poets Mark Strand and Eavan Boland have produced a clear, super-helpful book that unravels part of the mystery of great poems through an engaging exploration of poetic structure....
| Author | Kim Addonizio |
| ISBN | 0393334163 |
"The creative process is just that," maintains Kim Addonizio. "Not a means to an end, but an ongoing participation." A widely acclaimed poet and finalist for the National Book Award, Addonizio meditates on her own process as she encourages writers to explore both their personal and political worlds,...
| Author | Dean Young |
| ISBN | 1555975623 |
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,...
| Author | Jane Hirshfield |
| ISBN | 0060929480 |
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...
| Author | Cleanth Brooks |
| ISBN | 0030769809 |
The fourth edition of Understanding Poetry is a re-inspection of poetry. Keeping it teachable and flexible, the material allows for full and innocent immersion as well as raising inductive questions to develop critical and analytical skills. Students will be led to understand poetry as a means of...
| Author | Muriel Rukeyser |
| ISBN | 0963818333 |
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...
| Author | Glyn Maxwell |
| ISBN | 1849430853 |
A collection of short essays and reflections on poetry from the acclaimed British poet Glyn Maxwell. These essays illustrates Maxwell’s poetic philosophy, that the greatest verse arises from a harmony of mind and body, and that poetic forms originate in human necessities – breath, heartbeat,...
| Author | Adrienne Rich |
| ISBN | 0393311627 |
From critiquing heterosexuality as a political institution to considering the social uses of populist poetry, Rich addresses a wide variety of topics in this short collection of essays. Many facets of her thought have been thoroughly absorbed by mainstream feminist discourse in America since the...
| Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
| ISBN | 0330448234 |
I'm not a big reader of poetry, but I'm
glad I read this, both for the opportunity to revisit poems by A.E. Housman, W.H. Auden, Christina Rossetti, Ben Jonson, and D.H. Lawrence (who knew he had a sense of humour?), but also to see how contemporary poets have responded to their predecessors. I particularly...
| Author | Patrick Kavanagh |
| ISBN | 0393006948 |
I was introduced to Kavanagh’s work through several quotations in Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer. Those lines convinced me I had to seek out Kavanagh’s poetry.
Patrick Kavanagh wrote of Irish farm life, which he knew so well, without romantic sentimentality....
| Author | Paul Muldoon |
| ISBN | 0374528446 |
"Ireland"
The Volkswagen parked in the gap,
But gently ticking over.
You wonder if it's lovers
And not men hurrying back
Across two fields and a river.
Sven Birkerts has said, "It is not usual for a poet of Muldoon's years to have . . . an oeuvre disclosing significant shifts...
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...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0374248532 |
This might seem an odd choice: a collection of lectures about poetry, some of them to an Oxford audience. Sounds stuffy as can be - but it isn't. Wherever they were first heard, each lecture was written to be understood by anyone, and send them back to the works they cover.
The best piece, and perhaps...
| Author | Stephen Burt |
| ISBN | 1555975216 |
Essays and critical writings on contemporary poetry by Stephen Burt, "the finest critic of his generation" (Lucie Brock-Broido)
Stephen Burt's Close Calls with Nonsense provokes readers into the elliptical worlds of Rae Armantrout, Paul Muldoon, C. D. Wright, and other contemporary...
| Author | Randall Jarrell |
| ISBN | 0813021081 |
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...
| Author | Gregory Orr |
| ISBN | 1571781412 |
I once read that memoirs are testimonies of survival, or something to that effect. If the author can live through that, we can survive our sufferings, too. And so, I can't help but think of my favorite memoirs as gifts, as blessings.
At Glen Workshop East in South Hadley, MA, this summer, I perused...
The Visionary Poetics of Allen Ginsberg
| Author | Paul Portuges |
| ISBN | 0915520176 |
The first major full-length study of the most famous poet of our time, this insightful book is drawn from unlimited access to Ginsberg's papers as well as conversations with the poet. A fascinating and coherent presentation of some of the largely unknown facts about Ginsberg's background as a poet,...
4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché
| Author | Jacques Vaché |
| ISBN | 0947757740 |
This book collects together works by four "writers" on the fringes of the Dada movement in 1920's Paris. These four took the nihilism of the movement to its ultimate conclusion, their works are remnants of lives lived to the limit and then cast aside with nonchalance and abandon: Vache died of a drug overdose,...
