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The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,137 ratings — published 1957
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,997 ratings — published 2012
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,327 ratings — published 1994
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,057 ratings — published 1978
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,360 ratings — published -335
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 120,456 ratings — published 1929
The Art of the Poetic Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.02 — 687 ratings — published 2007
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,032 ratings — published 2005
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 989 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)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,261 ratings — published 1992
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,337 ratings — published 1997
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 784 ratings — published 1951
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,098 ratings — published 1998
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 741 ratings — published 1965
The Life of Poetry (Paris Press)
by (shelved 9 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 306 ratings — published 1968
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,560 ratings — published 2016
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,071 ratings — published 2009
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 656 ratings — published 2010
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 550 ratings — published 2006
The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 245 ratings — published 1997
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 793 ratings — published 1994
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,921 ratings — published 1934
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 277 ratings — published 2019
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,746 ratings — published 1973
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,184 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 412 ratings — published 2009
Theory of the Lyric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 121 ratings — published 2015
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 327,245 ratings — published 1923
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,668 ratings — published 1971
Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.06 — 394 ratings — published 1996
The New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 263 ratings — published 1968
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,054 ratings — published 1998
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.36 — 397 ratings — published 2015
Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,565 ratings — published 1986
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,501,418 ratings — published 1974
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 116,235 ratings — published 1855
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 417 ratings — published 1962
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.00 — 361 ratings — published 1999
The Language of Inquiry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 269 ratings — published 2000
My Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,528 ratings — published 1985
Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,543 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 — 1,141 ratings — published
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 73,520 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 — 425 ratings — published 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,693 ratings — published 2014
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.10 — 122 ratings — published 2002
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.78 — 119 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Description: World into Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 973 ratings — published 2010
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.97 — 62,568 ratings — published 1798
“To Wallace Stevens' post-Nietzschean formula 'God and the imagination are one,' these women poets would add a crucial third element: God and the imagination and my body are one.”
― Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America
― Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America
“Poetry is more philosophical and more serious than history; poetry utters universal truths, history particular statements.”
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