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10 best books like On Poetry and Craft: Selected Prose (Theodore Roethke): The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing, 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, Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within, Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft

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...
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...
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN0393334163
"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,...
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form
AuthorPaul Fussell
ISBN0075536064
Paperback: 190 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; Revised edition (January 1, 1979)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0075536064
ISBN-13: 978-0075536062
Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 5.3 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping...
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,...
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...
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 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,...
How Does a Poem Mean?
AuthorJohn Ciardi
ISBN0395186056
~ The question to put to the poem is not "What does it mean?" but "How does it mean?"
"What does it mean?" inevitably invites paraphrase and inevitably leads away from the poem.
"How does it mean?" is best asked by absorbing the poetic structure as a poetic structure, i.e., as a countermotion across...
Selected Poems
AuthorJames Tate
ISBN0819511927
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1992)
Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award (1992)

The Selected Poems James Tate's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection and his first British publication, gathers work from nine previous books, from the Lost Pilot which was a Yale Younger...
From the New World: Poems 1976-2012
AuthorJorie Graham
ISBN0062315404
An indispensable volume of poems, selected from almost four decades of work, that tracks the evolution of one of our most renowned contemporary poets, Pulitzer Prize-winner Jorie Graham.

The Poetry Foundation has named Jorie Graham “one of the most celebrated poets of the American post-war...
Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
AuthorStephen Burt
ISBN1555975216
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...
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,...
Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil
AuthorC.D. Wright
ISBN1556592167
C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time “to cool” after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder.

Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected...
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...
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...
ABC of Reading
AuthorEzra Pound
ISBN0811201511
This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound’s aesthetic theory. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding “Treatise on Meter” provides an illuminating...
Notes on Thought and Vision
AuthorH.D.
ISBN0872861414
Notes on Thought and Vision by Imagist poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) is an aphoristic meditation on how one works toward an ideal body-mind synthesis; a contemplation of the sources of imagination and the creative process; and a study of gender differences H.D. believed to be inherent in women's and...
The Poetry Lesson
AuthorAndrei Codrescu
ISBN0691147248
"Intro to Poetry Writing is always like this: a long labor, a breech birth, or, obversely, mining in the dark. You take healthy young Americans used to sunshine (aided sometimes by Xanax and Adderall), you blindfold them and lead them by the hand into a labyrinth made from bones. Then you tell them their...
The Winged Seed: A Remembrance
AuthorLi-Young Lee
ISBN1886913285
The book I read was The Winged Seed by Li Young Lee. This book was a non fiction/biography and the theme of the book was just because you come from a new place doesn’t mean you cant adjust to a new place.
The Winged Seed was about a boy named Li Young Lee who moved from China to Chicago with his family....
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