Books on Craft - Poetry

(* means the book is a 'must have')

TheTriggering Town (Richard Hugo)

The "Best of" Series on American poetry (edited each year by differ. poet)

(I suggest the Best of 2000 and The Best of the Best American Poetry edited by Harold Bloom to start)

Hammer and Blaze

(edited by Ellen Bryant Voight and Heather McHugh)

Contemporary American Poetry

(edited by A. Poulin, Jr.)

The BreadLoaf Anthology

(edited by Stanley Plumly and Michael Collier)

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Introduction to Poetry

(edit. J. Paul Hunter)

On Poetry and Craft

(Theodore Roethke) *

Making Your Own Days

(Kenneth Koch)

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry

(Edward Hirsch) *

Poems, Poets and Poetry

(Helen Vendler) *

Western Wind

(John Frederick Nims) *

The Poet's Handbook

(Judson Jerome)

Writing Poems

(Robert Wallace/Michelle Boisseau)

To Read a Poem

(Donald Hall) *

The Sounds of Poetry

(Robert Pinsky)

A Poet's Guide to Poetry

(Mary Kinzie)

Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

(Paul Fussell) *

The New Book of Forms

(Louis Turco) *

Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms

(Babette Deutsch)