Poetry Reference Books
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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 2,366 ratings — published 1997
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach – 90+ Inspiring Essays and Effective Exercises for Writers of All Levels (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,263 ratings — published 1992
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,274,776 ratings — published 1963
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 743 ratings — published 1965
Poetics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 30,389 ratings — published -335
Bewilderment (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 73,114 ratings — published 2021
Meditations in an Emergency (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 4,622 ratings — published 1957
Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 93 ratings — published 2004
Letter to His Father (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 67,080 ratings — published 1919
The Raven with The Philosophy of Composition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 1,111 ratings — published 1846
The Prophet (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 334,742 ratings — published 1923
Writing for a Good Cause: The Complete Guide to Crafting Proposals and Other Persuasive Pieces for Nonprofits (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 119 ratings — published 2000
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 220 ratings — published 1992
The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 355 ratings — published 1987
One Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 514 ratings — published 1995
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 55 ratings — published 1969
A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 29 ratings — published 2004
Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 70 ratings — published 1989
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets (Peabody Museum)
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avg rating 3.48 — 21 ratings — published 1980
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 132 ratings — published 1984
Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 359 ratings — published 1996
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 1,247 ratings — published 1997
Letters of Wallace Stevens (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 98 ratings — published 1966
The Collected Prose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 345 ratings — published 1984
The Art of the Poetic Line (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 701 ratings — published 2007
All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 161 ratings — published 1999
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,060 ratings — published 1956
Imagism Essays On Initiation Impact And Influence (Ezra Pound Center for Literature Book)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2003
Getting the Knack: 20 Poetry Writing Exercises (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 43 ratings — published 1992
Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 78 ratings — published 2015
Envelope Poems (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 4,414 ratings — published 2016
A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 2,634 ratings — published 2008
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 323 ratings — published 2003
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 359 ratings — published
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 2,390 ratings — published 2000
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 314 ratings — published 1974
Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write – A Sumptuous Guide to Getting Your Creative Juices Flowing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 103 ratings — published 2002
Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 75 ratings — published 1996
The Flexible Lyric (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft)
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avg rating 4.22 — 93 ratings — published 1999
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 9,825 ratings — published 1994
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 3,098 ratings — published 1978
Creating Poetry (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 182 ratings — published 1991
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 948 ratings — published 2005
The Arte of English Poesie (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 56 ratings — published 1589
Lives of the Poets (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 164 ratings — published 1998
Ezra Pound, Father and Teacher: Discretions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 30 ratings — published 1971
Poetry Speaks: Hear Great Poets Read Their Work from Tennyson to Plath (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 444 ratings — published 2001
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 123 ratings — published 2002
