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10 best books like The Art of the Poetic Line (James Longenbach): In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop, The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach, The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets, The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, 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, The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song

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 Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
AuthorTed Kooser
ISBN0803259786
Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can...
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....
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...
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song
AuthorEllen Bryant Voigt
ISBN1555975313
With intelligence and precision, Ellen Bryant Voigt parses out the deft and alluring shape of poetic language in The Art of Syntax. Through brilliant readings of poems by Bishop, Frost, Kunitz, Lawrence, and others, Voigt examines the signature musical scoring writers deploy to orchestrate meaning....
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 Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody, Revised Edition
AuthorAlfred Corn
ISBN1885266405
"The Poem's Heartbeat" is a progressive, step-by-step introduction to prosody--the art and science of metrical composition in poetry. This second edition includes a new appendix of sample scansions, and a comprehensive index of poets and poems cited.
"This intelligent, user-friendly book...
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,...
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...
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...
Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
AuthorJohn Hollander
ISBN0300088329
This book is chock full of great information about poetry. It talks about poetic devices, different forms and styles of poetry, and different sorts of feet, and all sorts of useful and relevant information. The problem is, this book is not organized at all, and the explanations are all given in the forms...
The Art of Description: World into Word
AuthorMark Doty
ISBN1555975631
"It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see," Mark Doty begins. "But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in the gaze of someone looking right into your eyes . . ." Doty finds refuge in...
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide
AuthorRobert Pinsky
ISBN0374526176
The Poet Laureate's clear and entertaining account of how poetry works.

"Poetry is a vocal, which is to say a bodily, art," Robert Pinsky declares in The Sounds of Poetry. "The medium of poetry is the human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and...
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...
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...
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice
AuthorGary McDowell
A wide-ranging gathering of 34 brief essays and 66 prose poems by distinguished practitioners, The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry is as personal and provocative, accessible and idiosyncratic as the genre itself. With its pioneering introduction, this collection provides a comprehensive...
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...
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