Poetics
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By: Clement Wood
The Complete Rhyming Dictionary
$9.99Mass Market PaperboundAdd to cartThe essential handbook for songwriters, poets, students, teachers, speechmakers, and members of the performing arts
This simple-to-use, exceptionally complete reference work has been updated, expanded- Author: Wood, Clement
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 02 1992
- ISBN10: 0440212057
- Language: English
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By: Hirsch, Edward
The Essential Poet’s Glossary
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cartA Poet’s Glossary was an extraordinary achievement that continues to stand as a definitive source for poets and poetry lovers alike. Here, The Essential Poet’s Glossary gleans the very best from that … [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0544931238
- Language: English
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By: Ruefle, Mary
Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartThis is one of the wisest books I’ve read in years… —New York Times Book Review
No writer I know of comes close to even trying to articulate the weird magic of poetry as Ruefle does. She acknowledg- Author: Ruefle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1933517573
- Language: English
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By: Turco, Lewis
The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics, Fifth Edition
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartFilled with both common and rarely heard of forms and prosodies, Turco’s engaging style and apt examples invite writers to try their hands at exploring forms in ways that challenge and enrich their wo… [more below]
- Author: Turco, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0826361889
- Language: English
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By: Brehm, John
The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartDiscover how to engage with poetry to support your spiritual practice, leading to more mindfulness, equanimity, and joy.
In The Dharma of Poetry, John Brehm shows how poems can open up new ways of thi- Author: Brehm, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1614297207
- Language: English
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The Art of the Poetic Line
$15.00PaperbackRead moreThe Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impa
- Series: Art of
- Author: Longenbach, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 26 2007
- ISBN10: 1555974880
- Language: English
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By: Dobyns, Stephen
Next Word, Better Word: The Craft of Writing Poetry
$23.99PaperbackAdd to cartThis accessible writer’s guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, author of the classic book on the beauty of poetry, “
- Author: Dobyns, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0230621805
- Language: English
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By: Brooks, Cleanth
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cart“Commentary on the greatest poems of the English language from one of America’s foremost lieterary critics”–Cover.
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Brooks, Cleanth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: February 23 1956
- ISBN10: 0156957051
- Language: English
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By: Strand, Clark
Seeds from a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey: 25th Anniversary Edition: Revised & Expanded
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cart“A brilliant and engaging book on haiku, and on the state of the body and mind required in the million to one shot against producing a good one” -Jim Harrison
First published in 1997, Seeds From a Birc… [more below]
- Author: Strand, Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1948626853
- Language: English
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By: Jay Rogoff
Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
$34.95PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Lewis P. Simpson Award
In Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contemporaries, to reveal how their poetry achieves its impact u- Author: Rogoff, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 0807180904
- Language: English
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Poetry for Dummies
$24.99PaperbackAdd to cartDemystify and appreciate the pleasures of poetry
Sometimes it seems like there are as many definitions of poetry as there are poems. Coleridge defined poetry as “the best words in the best order.” St. … [more below]
- Series: For Dummies
- Author: The Poetry Center
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 16 2001
- ISBN10: 0764552724
- Language: English
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By: Richard Hugo
The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartRichard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called “one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living,” was that rare phenomenon–a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher. The Triggerin… [more below]
- Author: Hugo, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 09 2010
- ISBN10: 039333872X
- Language: English
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By: Hirsch, Edward
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives.
How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented explorat… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Hirsch, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0156005662
- Language: English
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By: Lerner, Ben
The Hatred of Poetry
$17.00PaperbackAdd to cartNo art has been denounced as often as poetry. It’s even bemoaned by poets: “I, too, dislike it,” wrote Marianne Moore. “Many more people agree they hate poetry,” Ben Lerner writes, “than can agree wha
- Author: Lerner, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0865478201
- Language: English
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By: Jane Hirshfield
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cart“With the exactitude of a surgeon and the sensuous attention of a chef, Hirshfield addresses, essay by essay, the art, craft, and act of making poetry . . . These essays are both brilliantly ambitious
- Author: Hirshfield, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 26 1998
- ISBN10: 60929480
- Language: English
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By: Hayes, Terrance
Watch Your Language: Visual and Literary Reflections on a Century of American Poetry
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cart“Dazzling . . . a verbal and visual feast that defies genres.” —The Washington Post
“Hayes [is] one of the best and most important poets now writing.” –Craig Morgan Teicher, Poetry From the National- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0143137735
- Language: English
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By: Beyer, Tamiko
Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power
$20.95PaperbackAdd to cartPoems, essays, and prompts to sing a new world into being–Queer & BIPOC perspectives on poetry as an insurgent ritual for manifesting liberation and reclaiming power.
Written for poets, spellcasters,- Author: Beyer, Tamiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1623177197
- Language: English
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By: Louise Gluck
Proofs and Theories
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cartWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Proofs and Theories, winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl?k, one of this country’s
- Author: Gluck, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0880014423
- Language: English

















