Reality requires definition, the best place to find the technicalities and tools when curiosity leads to where curiosity leads.

Read the table of contents- the rest is detail.

If you are also thinking of Arthur Brown's remarkable musical rant, well passion.

Wheelwright has the sense of what one is supposed to do.

Words, it's all built on words. One of the most vital books on understanding nuance.

A poet who deals with the overview and the process of history- essential if one wants to look at long run rather than just what's currently playing at the carnival.

One of the two practical books in this list. It's all in learning to differentiate and very few books give one practice in this.

The best summation of the dichotomy between the eternal moment and the sense that the yellow brick road has a destination. I find that I balance more to viewpoints outside that of poetry, this from the perspective of the visual arts/

"The things that is happening here" covers a lot of territory that this list can't cover. Start with Jarry, work through Duchamp and forward.

An overview of what one group of playmates is up to. Perloff has written may interesting books on some of the wilder players.

This is just an introduction- the heart of the matter is in his book The Mechanics (And Kinematics) Of Web-Work Plot Construction, With Diagrams," or any of his essays on web-work and plot construction. You love him or hate him, but one of the most original literary minds and theorists of the previous century. He comes out the other side of genuine.

A concise and practical summary of how to cut through the confusion, an antidote to hang-over from wrestling with a lot of books above combined with a concise and usable set of instructions on a lot of tools, which includes, the most esoteric knowledge of all, how to make a living from one's play-group activities.

Back when, well there was a way of touching knowledge, wisdom- of coming up with theories of everything and nothing. A marvelous perspective lost for the most part in the modern world.

Emotion and passion again, the sense of having shown up in the eternal city and then what? Also take a look a New Poems 1908.

A reminder of how the games interact, that there is a possibility to integrate everything- well a possibility. Not everyone's cup of tea these days. If not try Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing, sort of the opposite direction.

Again to play one must live as a player, this is theatre at its highest. Look every few years and see if who you identify with changes.

Another take on the life of a poet.

Again my primary advice is that more attention should follow the other arts, that poetry/hermeneutics and alike gets swept away by words. One of the most poignant beings of the century and possibly the only who fully duplicated Emily Dickinson.

One must go way outside the box- the poetics of scent of perfume, the totally nonverbal magic, the ability to include the ineffable in poetics, just vital.

Two beings I have come across have understood what it means to have a sun in the sky- Turner and Stevens. If you have bothered to come this far look at your feeling about the sun. That is the poetic of poetics. Congratulations you have reached the beginning. Happy trails- Le Shadow