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A Poetry Handbook
Mary Oliver
Harvest Books, 1994
An Excellent Handbook
This book by Mary Oliver is an excellent resource for any poet seeking to improve their understanding of the craft. She acknowledges the need for creativity and experimentalism, yet does so by confirming time-honored techniques and explanations of formal structures. I ...
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100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Dover Publications, 1995
Great poems
very nice book I would recomend. I'm a big poetry lover and this book gives me a lot of what I yearn for.
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Say Uncle: Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove Press, 2000
"uncle!"
lyrics of moral turpitude and musical agility (the brief lines of Kay Ryan maintain their integrity), and therein lies their beauty.
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Elephant Rocks: Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove Press, 1997
Kay Ryan is the best poet now at work in America.
Once every couple of generations, an original thinker manages to refresh an art form that had seemed exhausted. Kay Ryan has done this with poetry. Her poems rhyme--but not in the ways and places you expect. They're metrical--but only according to the author's own ...
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101 Great American Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)
Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, ...
Dover Publications, 1998
A Manifested Dream
This book is the manifestation of the dream of former U.S. Poet Laureate Joseph Brodsky when he said, "Poetry must be available to the public in far greater volume than it is." Brodsky believed that poetry books should be distributed free of charge in many places, ...
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Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings
HarperCollins, 2004
Sure to make ANYONE SMILE !
I bought Where the Sidewalk Ends for my boys when they were little.We had so much fun reading,laughing and talking about all the fabulous poems and drawings.My boys have passed Shel's books on to their children.I have bought so many copies of Where the Sidewalk Ends,as ...
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Dirt on My Shirt
Jeff Foxworthy
HarperCollins, 2008
loved it!
I am a children's book enthusiast. My 3 year old son has hundreds of books on his shelf mostly bought here on Amazon (great prices AND great service). My husband, son and I love this book. It is just so clever and a really fun bedtime read!
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The Niagara River: Poems (Grove Press Poetry)
Kay Ryan
Grove Press, 2005
Lyrical Modern American Poems
The poetry is contempory and uses traditional elements, such as occational rhyme. Wonderful images and subjects that linger in the mind the day after reading them.
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The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Alfred A. Knopf, 1923
Fabulous writing
The Prophet is a very thought-provoking and inspiring book. I purchased it after reading a few pages from a copy that my sister-in-law had, and I knew I had to have my own. An excellent collection of short stories and poems.
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Red Bird: Poems
Mary Oliver
Beacon Press, 2008
The Extraordinary Voice of the Ordinary World
Are you familiar with the poetry of Mary Oliver?" I asked a student once in the hope of beginning a conversation on the poem "Wild Geese," a gem that contains the lines
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through ...
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A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
Caroline Kennedy
Hyperion Book CH, 2005
Beautiful book for younger children as well
We have borrowed this book several times from the library and I am ordering my own copy today. This has become one of my three year old's favorite bedtime books. Some of the poems are too long for her, and there are many I have to explain to her as we read. I'm ...
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Back Bay Books, 1976
Great collection of poetry!
Dickinson is probably the one poet who best personifies mood, emotion, fears, hopes, dreams, and time and eternity with such few words and in the most illustrative way. Most of her subjects are ones we readily identify with--love, death, nature, religion, passage of ...
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Doubleday, 1966
The Enduring Master of the Macabre
Edgar Allan Poe, born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809, died October 7, 1849.
What is it that makes an author famous? I don't mean famous in the sense a news article reports that "Jack Greylea's novels sold 15 million copies last year," but in the sense ...
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Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the Inside Out
Ralph Fletcher
HarperTrophy, 2002
This is a Great Book for learning how to write poetry!
Hi, I really enjoyed reading Ralph Fletcher's book "Poetry Matters: Writing a Poem from the inside out." He gives lots of good examples. He has interviews with two other poets in the book for ideas on poetry. He makes poetry interesting and fun to learn! I also enjoyed ...
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Kabir: Ecstatic Poems
Kabir
Beacon Press, 2007
Refreshing Wisdom
It's so hard to find WISDOM these days... not "moral/ethical" wisdom, or "financial" wisdom, but ECSTATIC WISDOM. So few people are interested in the subject of actually experiencing divine ecstasy...they're too tied down by dogma, worship of imagery & robotic ...
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