The Craft of Poetry

Reducere. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the...

Reducere. Brought together for the first time, these are poems about ancestry and addiction, about landscape and introspection, about walking in the natural ...

Reducere. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the...

Reducere. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the...

Poetry. In HIJITO--selected by Eduardo C. Corral as winner of the 2018 Broken River Prize--Carlos Andr s G mez writes of brutality and beauty with ...

Reducere. The Maracot Deep is one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's less known works that definitely deserves major recognition for its craft and originality. One ...

A master class for modern beginners and old hands alike. The Times (London) Actor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on...

The late U.A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was a later developer as a writer, not publishing any poetry until she was 45. This gathering of her early, unc...

Reducere. Want to improve your craft? Then this is a good place to start. Poems do not simply happen, they are made - Poetry: Tools & Techniques shows how to...

Reducere. "Deadman is a book predicated on the celebration of desolate beauty and the fragility of its adherents. Every line is as a sumi-e painting-rich wit...

Rilke is one of the leading poets of European Modernism, and one of the great twentieth-century lyric poets in German. From The Book of Hours in 19...

Contributor(s): Author: HoraceAuthor: PersiusTranslator: Rudd PersiusInspiring poets from Ben Jonson and Alexander Pope to W. H. Auden and Robert F...

A Poetry Book Society Winter 2020 Recommendation. Bill Manhire's Wow opens with the voice of an extinct bird, a song from anciency, and takes us fo...

DescriptionEast Wings choose the wind; sing us aware;Muse; spin; weave; spell; create in air In this micro-book, acclaimed "Poetry-Witch" Annie Fin...

Reducere. The award-winning poet Carl Phillips's invaluable essays on poetry, the tenth volume in the celebrated Art of series of books on the craft of writi...

Reducere. The 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 explorati...

DescriptionIn her latest book, Patricia Crowther explores some of the many questions she has been asked over almost 50 years as an initiate of the ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2017 Grayson Books Poetry Prize, Our Hands a Hollow Bowl praises the world, while seeing it with full clarity. The tilt of a rusty ma...

Reducere. A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her method J...

The biography of Second World War Spitfire pilot John Gillespie Magee who penned the poem `High Flight', which would inspire legions of aspiring av...

Reducere. A collection of poetry by contemporary American poet Lee Colin Thomas exploring the mysteries and memories of a life.Written with craft and precisi...

In this sweet and brightly illustrated picture book, Amy Wu must craft a dragon unlike any other to share with her class at school in this unforget...

Reducere. In this seventh volume of the Floodgate Poetry Series, authors Barbara Robidoux, Donovan McAbee, and Kimiko Hahn bring a unique and diverse batch o...

Reducere. Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those dec...

Reducere. DescriptionThis collection of one hundred and one famous poems is drawn from centuries of literature - it is a perfect introduction to the beautifu...

Reducere. An anthology of poetry by young people, edited by superstar poet and author of The Dead Emcee Scrolls and , said the shotgun to the head, Saul Will...

Reducere. The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft ...

Reducere. The anticipated first collection of essays by celebrated poet Tony Hoagland, author of What Narcissism Means to MeMeanness, the very thing that is ...

Reducere. "By writing honestly about the difficulties of self-representation, Rader represents himself as a writer who cares deeply about his audience and hi...

Reducere. Poems by Nguyen Phan Que Mai Translated from the Vietnamese by Bruce Weigl and Nguyen Phan Que Mai Nguyen Phan Que Mai is among the most exciting w...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tania RunyanContribution by: Barbara CrookerContribution by: Maureen E. DoallasHow to read a poem. A lot of books want to t...

Winner of the 2019 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize"You will love Dorsey Craft's rollicking persona, Pirate Anne Bonny, who, in this thrilling...

Reducere. Poetry collection by Lupe Mendez, poet, teacher and activist. Why I Am Like Tequila is a collection of poetry spanning a decade of writing and perf...

Reducere. Poetry is the language of the human nature, a beautiful tool to express every thought and feeling. Searching through different cultures, languages,...

"We need poetry as we need love and company, " according to Miller Williams. Making a Poem speaks to us all -- those of us trying to write a first ...

Reducere. When this book was first published (as Summer Knowledge) in 1959. Delmore Schwartz was still riding a crest, the golden boy of the literary scene a...

DescriptionIn this accessible and distilled craft guide, acclaimed poet Tony Hoagland approaches poetry through the frame of poetic voice, that mys...

Reducere. T. S. Eliot was not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most acute writers on his craft. In On Poetry a...

Reducere. For fifty years, world-class poets have come to the village library in Katonah, New York to read for the Katonah Poetry Series. For close to 25 of ...

Reducere. At its center, Duende de Burque is a love letter to Alburquerque and its surroundings--the Sandia Mountains, the Rio Grande Bosque, and all the peo...

Reducere. Our planet's most beautiful and endangered animals come to life in this visually stunning picture book. The photos, by award-winning National Geogr...

Reducere. "On and beyond the horizon, Wellington's excursions into our body politic, psyche, purpose, and existence are multilayered and multifaceted. Conten...

Reducere. "Herbert loved crafting language in new and powerful ways. It was for him a way of seeing and savoring and showing the wonders of Christ. The centr...

Reducere. Will Cordeiro's Trap Street travels a shifting landscape. Keenly observed deserts, woods, highways, seaside enclaves, mountainsides, and motels par...

Reducere. Denise Levertov's Poems 1960-1967 brings together all of the poetry first published in The Jacob's Ladder (1961), O Taste and See (1964), and The S...

Reducere. Quiver of Arrows is a generous gathering from Carl Phillips's work that showcases the twenty-year evolution of one of America's most distinctive--a...

A wonderfully accessible handbook to the art of writing and reading poetry--itself written entirely in verse How does poetry work? What should read...

Reducere. A history submerged in the ever-shifting currents of the ocean emerges in this debut collection by Richard Georges. These poems craft narratives of...

Reducere. DescriptionFire--its light and passion, is an apt metaphor for these rich, compelling, and deeply felt poems. It takes its form in many ways in the...

Reducere. The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft focuses on the craft of poetry and is based on the belief that craft can be taught and the best teacher of cra...

Reducere. DescriptionOrganized into ten sections with each devoted to a poetic concept, The Practicing Poet begins with "Discovering New Material, " "Finding...

Reducere. Many want to write. But sometimes they lose heart. They are cowed in the face of so many fine writers of fiction, memoir, poetry, columns, and crea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan D. KantrowitzAuthor: Sarah M. WilliamsEditor: Patricia F. BraccioThis extraordinary reading comprehension workbook...

Poetry discovers and speaks a truth ordinary language cannot express. And the passionate message in Finding What You Didn't Lose is that we're all ...

Reducere. Mountain and Flower is Mykola Vorobiov's second book in English translation. Translator Maria Rewakowicz presents a selection of poems spanning mor...

Reducere. In pre-Colombian Mexico, song and dance were vital components of daily life. However, all that is left of this vast tradition of lyrical verse are ...

Reducere. Nick Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s and was a pioneer of American haiku poetry, penned some of this country s most elegiac and memorabl...

Reducere. In Writing Poetry from the Inside Out, poet and national poetry workshop leader, Sandford Lyne, offers the writing exercises, guidance, and encoura...

DescriptionThis illuminating anthology follows the sonnet through its various moments and makers over five and a half centuries. Edward Hirsch and ...

Reducere. This accessible writer's guide provides a helpful framework for creating poetry and navigates contemporary concerns and practices. Stephen Dobyns, ...

Reducere. For more than thirty years, Ana Castillo has been mesmerizing and inspiring readers from all over the world with her passionate and fiery poetry an...

Reducere. Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Translated by Brian Kim Stefans. Poet of logical revolts, of sexual freedom, inveterate modernist, Symbolist, and inspirat...

Reducere. The poetry of John Berryman (1914-1972) is primarily concerned with the self in response to the rapid social, political, sexual, racial, and techno...

Steven Cramer's sixth poetry collection generates scores of illuminating juxtapositions: the privacy of a son's shower-aria and the public lies spe...

Reducere. "This book should come with a warning label: 'Be ready, you are going to have to go deeper than you ever imagined.'" Dorothy Allison Author of Bast...

Reducere. What is a lyric essay? An essay that has a lyrical style? An essay that plays with form in a way that resembles poetry more than prose? Both of the...

Three decades ago, renowned literary expert Robert Alter radically expanded the horizons of biblical scholarship by recasting the Bible as not only...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Poppy PalinWild Witchcraft is a magical, free-spirited philosophy that embraces nature. It resonates with those who yearn t...

Reducere. In A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Mary Kinzie brings her decades of expertise as poet, critic, and director of the creative writing program at Northwest...

Reducere. Enter the world of the scary, the fearful, the hardcore, and the most disturbing horrific works of poetry from the crypts of authors from around th...