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The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.18 — 11,373 ratings — published 1957
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,014 ratings — published 2012
A Poetry Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,621 ratings — published 1994
The Art of the Poetic Line (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.03 — 693 ratings — published 2007
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,081 ratings — published 1978
Poetics (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.83 — 29,977 ratings — published -335
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.27 — 125,843 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 4.16 — 2,058 ratings — published 2005
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 996 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 — 2,352 ratings — published 1997
Poetic Meter and Poetic Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.99 — 741 ratings — published 1965
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.14 — 790 ratings — published 1951
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,115 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 — 3,627 ratings — published 2016
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.04 — 58,792 ratings — published 2009
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,762 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 — 1,193 ratings — published 1999
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.13 — 661 ratings — published 2010
The Art of Syntax: Rhythm of Thought, Rhythm of Song (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.84 — 421 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 — 248 ratings — published 1997
Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.12 — 810 ratings — published 1994
ABC of Reading (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,941 ratings — published 1934
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.34 — 279 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 4.24 — 126 ratings — published 2015
Poetry, Language, Thought (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,704 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
The Language of Inquiry (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.42 — 273 ratings — published 2000
My Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,537 ratings — published 1985
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 37,124 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 — 7,018 ratings — published 1986
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.23 — 332,056 ratings — published 1923
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,519,453 ratings — published 1974
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.11 — 117,331 ratings — published 1855
The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.29 — 419 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 — 2,377 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 — 2,545 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 — 1,142 ratings — published
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.22 — 74,307 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 — 438 ratings — published 2019
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,317 ratings — published 2014
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,354 ratings — published 1667
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as poetics)
avg rating 4.53 — 41,537 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
“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
“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












