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Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath

10 best books like Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Elise Paschen): The Necessary Shakespeare, The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation), Contemporary American Poetry, The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, Collected Poems, Say Uncle, A Poet's Guide to Poetry

The Necessary Shakespeare
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0321272501
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist...
The Leaf And The Cloud: A Poem
AuthorMary Oliver
ISBN0306810735
With piercing clarity and craftsmanship, Mary Oliver has fashioned an unforgettable poem of questioning and discovery, about what is observable and what is not, about what passes and what persists. As the U.S. Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has said: "Mary Oliver's poetry is fine and deep; it reads...
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
AuthorMark Strand
ISBN0393321789
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....
The Spoken Word Revolution (slam, hip hop & the poetry of a new generation)
AuthorBilly Collins
ISBN1402202466
The poetry on the page wasn't very good. A DVD goes along with it. I enjoyed that more, which is the point of spoken word poetry.

Here is one example:

"The Foxhole Manifesto"
by Jeffrey McDaniel

There are no atheists in foxholes.
--old Christian proverb

The...
Contemporary American Poetry
AuthorA. Poulin Jr.
ISBN0395745322
I own many books of poetry and a few poetry anthologies. It is rare that an anthology includes all of the poets whose work I admire, but this is one of those. As is the case for many anthologies, for those who are looking for samples of more experimental work, this is not for you. This includes the typical major...
The Language of Life: A Festival of Poets
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0385479174
Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen."
In a series of fascinating conversations with thirty-four American poets, "The...
Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness
AuthorCarolyn Forché
ISBN0393309762
I read this for my Poetry & Protest class and I just wanted to catalogue the poems that I read on Goodreads. I'd love to read this whole collection someday and hopefully I will, but for now, here are the poems that I have read:

"A Working Party" by Siegfried Sassoon
Really intense poem that...
Collected Poems
AuthorJames Merrill
The publication of James Merrill's Collected Poems is a landmark in the history of modern American literature. His First Poems—its sophistication and virtuosity were recognized at once—appeared half a century ago. Over the next five decades, Merrill's range broadened and his voice took on...
Say Uncle
AuthorKay Ryan
ISBN0802137172
Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and...
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...
Lives of the Poets
AuthorMichael Schmidt
ISBN0375706046
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the Caribbean, all sharing the English language.

Schmidt...
A Book of Women Poets: From Antiquity to Now
AuthorAliki Barnstone
ISBN0805209972
A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of...
Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0393048209
The selections in this anthology were chosen form the personal letters of thousands of Americans who responded to Robert Pinsky's invitation to write to him about their favorite poems. Some poems are memories treasured in the mind since childhood; some crystallize the passion of love or recall the...
Holocaust Poetry
AuthorHilda Schiff
ISBN0312143575
The only known collection of its kind currently in print, this important volume includes the work of 59 poets--among them Auden, Brecht, Celan, Jarrell, Levi, Milosz, Plath, Sexton, Spender, Wiesel, and Yevtushenko--writing on a range of subjects that are indelibly linked with the Holocaust. Collecting...
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages
AuthorHarold Bloom
ISBN0684868741
"If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and Rudyard Kipling," writes Harold Bloom in his introduction to this enchanting and much-needed anthology of...
The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden
AuthorStanley Kunitz
ISBN0393329976
Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal...
The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
AuthorAlexander Pope
ISBN1421911701
Compared to the Nineteenth Century's Romantic movement and the Seventeenth's Shakespeare and Milton, the Eighteenth has always felt a veritable void to me. There was a little bit going on in France with Diderot and Voltaire, and some minor British works by Swift and Defoe, but by and large, Eighteenth...
Tell Me
AuthorKim Addonizio
ISBN1880238918
This book is awesome. I think everyone should read it. One of my favorite books of the year. And it has been around for awhile now, 15 years! And she has been around now for awhile! She’s almost my age and has published many many books! Where have I been? Reading Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? Okay,...
Caribou: Poems
AuthorCharles Wright
ISBN0374119023
A powerfully moving meditation on life, nature, and the beyond, from one of our finest American poets

This is an old man’s poetry,
written by someone who’s spent his life
Looking for one truth.
Sorry, pal, there isn’t one.
     —from “Ancient of Days”


Charles...
Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
AuthorJulie Andrews Edwards
ISBN0316040495
In this comprehensive collection, coauthors Julie Andrews and daughter Emma Walton Hamilton share a diverse assortment of their most cherished poems, songs, lullabies, hymns, and more.

Featuring a wide range of beloved classics from William Shakespeare, Emily Dickenson, and Robert...
No Nature: New and Selected Poems
AuthorGary Snyder
ISBN0679742522
Snyder is great, and this represents him quite well. However, I think his body of work will remain just a hair's breadth away from full illumination until a devoted editor annotates many of his very particular regional, botanical, anthropological and non-English references. It's somewhat astounding...
These are My Rivers: New Selected Poems 1955-1993
AuthorLawrence Ferlinghetti
ISBN0811212734
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, "one of our ageless radicals and true bards" (Booklist), has gathered here four decades of poetry in his inimitable everyman’s voice, including more than fifty pages of new work. The tone has deepened over the years, and he may now be seen as a true maestro in his field. Behind...
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