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The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 11,262 ratings — published 1957
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,007 ratings — published 2012
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,503 ratings — published 1994
The Art of the Poetic Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 691 ratings — published 2007
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,069 ratings — published 1978
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,691 ratings — published -335
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 123,656 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 — 2,044 ratings — published 2005
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 991 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 — 2,342 ratings — published 1997
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 743 ratings — published 1965
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 787 ratings — published 1951
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,106 ratings — published 1998
The Life of Poetry (Paris Press)
by (shelved 9 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.28 — 307 ratings — published 1968
The Hatred of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,604 ratings — published 2016
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 58,032 ratings — published 2009
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,751 ratings — published 1973
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,186 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 661 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 417 ratings — published 2009
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 — 246 ratings — published 1997
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 803 ratings — published 1994
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,933 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 New Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 263 ratings — published 1968
Theory of the Lyric (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 124 ratings — published 2015
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,688 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 Language of Inquiry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 272 ratings — published 2000
My Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,526 ratings — published 1985
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 36,651 ratings — published 1998
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.36 — 401 ratings — published 2015
Eros the Bittersweet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.46 — 6,827 ratings — published 1986
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 330,203 ratings — published 1923
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,513,537 ratings — published 1974
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 417 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 — 2,363 ratings — published 2000
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 365 ratings — published 1999
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 4.17 — 2,544 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 — 1,140 ratings — published
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 73,960 ratings — published 1922
Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.76 — 432 ratings — published 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 52,056 ratings — published 2014
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.09 — 123 ratings — published 2002
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 118 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Description: World into Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.96 — 982 ratings — published 2010
“Poetry is a satisfying of the desire for resemblance. As the mere satisfying of a desire, it is pleasurable. But poetry if it did nothing but satisfy a desire would not rise above the level of many lesser things. Its singularity is that in the act of satisfying the desire for resemblance it touches the sense of reality, it enhances the sense of reality, heightens it, intensifies it.”
― The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
― The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need
for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.”
― Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
