Poetry: An Introduction
10 best books like Poetry: An Introduction (Michael Meyer): Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, Understanding Poetry, On Poetry, Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic, Great Sonnets, The Best American Poetry 2009, Technicians of the Sacred: A Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania, Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time
| Author | Wayne F. Hill |
| ISBN | 0517885395 |
The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance,...
| 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 | Tony Hoagland |
| ISBN | 1555974554 |
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...
| 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 | 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 | Elisabeth Bronfen |
| ISBN | 0719038278 |
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range...
| Author | Paul Negri |
| ISBN | 0486280527 |
Treasury of over 170 English and American sonnets by more than 70 poets, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. Shakespeare's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?", Milton's "On His Blindness," Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us," many more by Spenser, Sidney, Blake, Byron, Coleridge,...
| Author | David Wagoner |
| ISBN | 1439166269 |
David Wagoner writes about regular lives with plain grace and transcendent humanity, and the seventy-five poems he has chosen for the 2009 edition of The Best American Poetry grapple with life, celebrate freedom, and teem with imaginative energy. With engaging notes from the poets, Wagoner's superb...
| Author | Jerome Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0520049128 |
Since its first publication in 1968, Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred has educated a generation of poets, artists, and readers to the multiple faces and possibilities of poetry throughout the world. Hailed by Robert Creeley as "both a deeply useful work book and an unequivocal delight,"...
| Author | Eavan Boland |
| ISBN | 0393314375 |
[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....
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670022543 |
Another bestselling anthology from Garison Keillor-beautiful verses rooted in the American landscape.
Garrison Keillor, the editor of "Good Poems" and "Good Poems for Hard Times," host of "The Writer's Almanac," and all-around arbiter of fine American poetry, introduces another inspiring...
| Author | Stephen Vincent Benét |
One of the most widely read poems of our time, John Brown s Body is Stephen Vincent Benet s masterful retelling of the Civil War. A book of great energy and sweep, it swings into view the entire course of that terrible and decisive war, lighting up the lives of soldiers, leaders, and civilians, North and...
| 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 | Jordan Trachtenberg |
| ISBN | 0312151918 |
What are are holding right now in your hands is a book. Not a telephone reciever, which is how most of the poems in this collection were first transmitted...There are plenty of examples of this spreading of one art form or another through popular mediums. There are all those wonderful Russian Constructivist...
| Author | John Milton |
| ISBN | 0395809991 |
The first one-volume anthology of John Milton's complete poetry and selected prose to be published in over 30 years, The Riverside Milton reflects the highest quality and most current scholarship. As editor of The Milton Quarterly for 30 years, Roy Flannagan is uniquely qualified to survey Milton's...
| Author | Honor Moore |
| ISBN | 1598530429 |
THE WOMEN S MOVEMENT OF THE 1960s 70s AND 80s generated an extraordinary outpouring of poetry that captured an age of expectancy of defiant purpose and exuberant exploration Here brought together for the first time are the poems that gave voice to a revolution including works by Sylvia Plath Adrienne...
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,...
| Author | Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| ISBN | 0872863115 |
"This comprehensive selection from the influential City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a landmark retrospective, celebrating forty years of publishing and cultural history.
From the introduction by Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Even though some say that an avant-garde in literature...
The Poets Laureate Anthology
| Author | Elizabeth Hun Schmidt |
| ISBN | 0393061817 |
This is a wonderful, huge volume of poetry anthologizing all those poets who've served as the nation's Poet Laureate or--as the position was originally appointed--as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. They range from Joseph Auslander (1937) to W. S. Merwin (2010), the outgoing laureate...
| Author | Billy Collins |
| ISBN | 0812972961 |
Come full circle with 180 new, exciting poems selected and introduced by Billy Collins.
Inspired by Billy Collins’s poem-a-day program for American high schools that he began through the Library of Congress, the original Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry was a gathering of clear, contemporary...
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,...
The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon
| Author | Karen Elizabeth Gordon |
| ISBN | 0395689902 |
"What on earth does lagniappe mean? A sluggard who lies around till noon? A she-wolf of Anapurna? A car that demands heavy pampering?" In fact, none of the above. But one can find this Creole French word delectably defined in THE DISHEVELED DICTIONARY, which does for vocabulary what Gordon's cult classic...
| Author | Marvin Terban |
| ISBN | 0590381571 |
My boys are really loving this book. We read one idiom a day. They give you an example of using it in a sentence, the meaning and the origin. There is a black and white drawing of a person on each page and the idiom is highlighted in yellow. It's alphabetical and has a good index in the back. We started with A and...
The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1934200794 |
"To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial—a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one.
"It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as ahistorical, as a generative place...
