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The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 11,446 ratings — published 1957
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,770 ratings — published 1994
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,028 ratings — published 2012
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,093 ratings — published 1978
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,261 ratings — published -335
The Art of the Poetic Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 697 ratings — published 2007
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 127,953 ratings — published 1929
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach – 90+ Inspiring Essays and Effective Exercises for Writers of All Levels (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,263 ratings — published 1992
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,072 ratings — published 2005
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,000 ratings — published 1997
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,364 ratings — published 1997
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 742 ratings — published 1965
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 789 ratings — published 1951
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,124 ratings — published 1998
The Life of Poetry (Paris Press)
by (shelved 9 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 310 ratings — published 1968
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,660 ratings — published 2016
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 59,605 ratings — published 2009
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,770 ratings — published 1973
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,198 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 662 ratings — published 2010
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 550 ratings — published 2006
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 249 ratings — published 1997
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 817 ratings — published 1994
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,953 ratings — published 1934
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 281 ratings — published 2019
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 423 ratings — published 2009
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 264 ratings — published 1968
Theory of the Lyric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 128 ratings — published 2015
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,713 ratings — published 1971
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 395 ratings — published 1996
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,579 ratings — published 1998
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.36 — 403 ratings — published 2015
Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.45 — 7,215 ratings — published 1986
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 333,941 ratings — published 1923
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,525,352 ratings — published 1974
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 117,838 ratings — published 1855
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 423 ratings — published 1962
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,387 ratings — published 2000
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 367 ratings — published 1999
The Language of Inquiry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 273 ratings — published 2000
My Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,546 ratings — published 1985
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.49 — 212 ratings — published 1993
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,547 ratings — published 1996
In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,148 ratings — published
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 74,617 ratings — published 1922
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.75 — 448 ratings — published 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,610 ratings — published 2014
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 185,510 ratings — published 1667
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,893 ratings — published 1984
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 123 ratings — published 2002
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.”
― Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America
― Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America
“There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I am more than just my appearance'. If each object quivers with readiness to imply something other than itself, if each perception is a word in a poem dense with connotations, then the poet's selection of any given subject of speculation will become... a means of attuning himself to the rhythms and harmonies of reality at large. ... The notion of a network of correspondence is not an outmoded Romantic illusion: it represents a crucial intuition...”
― Figures of Reality
― Figures of Reality
