 | Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry by Diane Thiel
Buy new: $39.63 / Used from: $6.79 My newest recommendation for "where-to-begin."
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 | Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: A Guide to Writing Poetry by Wendy Bishop
Buy new: $50.91 / Used from: $24.99 An insightful complete course.
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 | The Art and Craft of Poetry by Michael J. Bugeja
Buy used from: $1.59 Excellent complete course. I used to recommend that students start with this text, but if you complete the texts by Thiel and Bishop, you will get more out of Bugeja.
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 | Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse by Professor John Hollander
Buy new: $8.37 / Used from: $3.40 Formal poems that define and illustrate their forms.
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 | The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $6.07 Excellent anthology organized by form, technique, and topic.
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 | An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $10.99 An Anthology of Contemporary Formal Poems.
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 | Poetic Meter and Poetic Form by Paul Fussell
Buy new: $35.22 / Used from: $8.95 Excellent Discussion of Poetic Technique
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 | The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within by Stephen Fry
Buy used from: $2.87 Stephen Fry is a gifted actor, a witty comedian, and a bestselling novelist as well as a not-so-secret versifier and poetic theorist. His insightful, learned, and entertaining text on writing poetry drips with British humor. The book is subtitled UNLOCKING THE POET WITHIN and covers Meter, Rhyme, Form, Diction, and Trends. Buy it and give it to friends who think poetry and poetics are boring.
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 | All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification by Timothy Steele
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $7.12 Good discussion of poetic technique from a different perspective.
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