Ars Poetica Library 2015

TITLE	AUTHOR, EDITOR	TYPE	PRESS, YEAR
A Glossary of Literary Terms	M.H. Abrams	Literary Reference	Holt Rinehart Winston 1988
Poetic Designs: An Introduction to Meters, Verse Forms, and Figures of Speech	Stephen Adams	Handbook of Techniques and Forms	Broadview Press 1997
Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within	Kim Addonizio	Poetry Essays	W.W. Norton & Co. 2009
The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry	Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux	Introduction to Poetry Writing	Norton 1997
The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics	Giorgio Agamben (trans. by Daniel Heller-Roazen)	Poetry Criticism	Stanford U. Press 1999
The Poetics of the New American Poetry	Donald Allen, editor	Poetics	Grove Press 1974
The LANGUAGE Book	Bruce Andrews & Charles Bernstein, editors	Poetry Essays	Southern Illinois Univ. Press 1984
Selected Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire	Guillaume Apollinaire (R. Shattuck, trans.)	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1971
The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult World	Robert Archambeau, editor	Poetry Criticism	U. of Akron Press 2013
Vectors: New Poetics	Robert Archambeau, editor	Poetry, Poetics	iUniverse 2011
The Poetics	Aristotle	Classic Text	Various Editions
Contemporary Poetics	Louis Armand, editor	Poetics	Northwestern U. Press 2007
Essays Literary & Critical by Matthew Arnold	Matthew Arnold	Poetry Essays	JM Dent & Son 1906
Selected Prose 1953-2003	John Ashbery	Essays	Carcanet Press Ltd 2005
Other Traditions	John Ashbery	Poetry Essays	Harvard Univ. Press 2000
Selected Prose	John Ashbery	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 2003
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet	James Atlas	Biography	Avon Books 1977
Poetic Rhythm: An Introduction	Derek Attridge	Formalism, Metrics	Cambridge U. Press 1996
The Dyer's Hand	W.H. Auden	Poetry Essays	Vintage 1989
Forewords & Afterwords	W.H. Auden	Poetry Essays	Vintage 1989
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature	Erich Auerbach	Literary Criticism	Doubleday Anchor Books 1957
The Poetics of Reverie	Gaston Bachelard	Philosophy, Aesthetics	Beacon Press 1971
The Poetics of Space	Gaston Bachelard (Maria Jolas, trans.)	Philosophy, Aesthetics	Beacon Press 1969
Earth and reveries of will: an essay on the imagination of matter	Gaston Bachelard (trans. by Kenneth Haltman)	Philosophy, Aesthetics	Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture 2002
The Extravagant: Crossings of Modern Poetry and Philosophy	Robert Baker	Poetry, Philosophy	U. of Notre Dame Press 2005
Meter in English: A Critical Engagement	David Baker	Prosody, Metrics	U. of Arkansas Press 1997
Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry	David Baker and Ann Townsend, editors	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2007
Onward: Contemporary Poetry & Poetics	Peter Baker, editor	Poetry Essays	Peter Lang Publishing 1996
An Owen Barfield Reader	Owen Barfield	Poetry Criticism	Wesleyan U. Press 1999
The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters	Tony Barnstone & Chou Ping, trans.	Poetry Criticism	Shambhala 1996
The Poetics of Translation: History, Theory, Practice	Willis Barnstone, editor	Poetry, Translation	Yale U. Press 1993
The Song of the Earth	Jonathan Bate	Poetry Essays, Ecopoetics	Harvard Univ. Press 2000
The Principles of English Versification	Paul Franklin Baum	Formalism, Metrics	Harvard Univ. Press 1923
Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics	Christopher Beach	Poetics	U. of Alabama Press 1998
The Making of the Auden Canon	Jos. Warren Beach	Poetry Criticism	Russell & Russell 1971
Eight Contemporary Poets	Calvin Bedient	Poetry Criticism	Oxford U. Press 1974
The Practice of Poetry: Writing Exercises From Poets Who Teach	Robin Behn & Chase Twichell	Poetry Praxis	Collins 1992
Humbolt's Gift	Saul Bellow	Novel
Illuminations	Walter Benjamin	Literary Criticism	Schoken Books 1978
Reflections	Walter Benjamin (Peter Demetz, editor)	Literary Criticism	Schoken Books 1978
Singular Voices: American poetry today	Stephen Berg, ed.	Poems with Commentary	Avon Books 1985
My Business is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery	Stephen Berg, ed.	Poetry Essays	Paul Dry Books 2001
Content's Dream	Charles Bernstein	Poetry Essays	Sun & Moon 1986
A Poetics	Charles Bernstein	Poetry Essays	Harvard U. Press 1992
The Monkey and The Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics	Mary Biddinger & John Gallaher, eds.	Poetry Essays	U. of Akron Press 2012
Elizabeth Bishop and The New Yorker: The Complete Correspondence	Joell Biele, editor	Letters	Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
A Long High Whistle: Selected Columns by David Biespiel	David Biespiel	Poetry Essays	Antilever Press 2015
Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: A Guide to Writing Poetry	Wendy Bishop	Poetry Guidebook	Longman 1999
Form and Value in Modern Poetry	R.P. Blackmur	Poetry Criticism	Doubleday Anchor 1957
Selected Essays of R.P. Blackmur	R.P. Blackmur (Denis Donoghue, editor & intro)	Literary Criticism	Ecco Press 1988
The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser	Robin Blaser, Miriam Nichols, editor	Poetry Essays	U. of California Press 2006
An Anatomy of Influence: Literature As A Way of Life	Harold Bloom	Literary Criticism	Yale Univ. Press 2011
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry	Harold Bloom	Literary Criticism	Oxford U. Press 1973
The Breaking of Vessels	Harold Bloom	Literary Criticism	U. of Chicago Press 1982
A Map of Misreading	Harold Bloom	Literary Criticism	Oxford U. Press 1975
American Poetry: Wildness and Domesticity	Robert Bly	Poetry Criticism	Harper & Row 1990
Leaping Poetry	Robert Bly	Poetry Essay & Anthology	Beacon Press 1975
News of the Universe	Robert Bly	Poetry Essays & Anthology	Sierra Club Books 1980
A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art & Vocation	Louise Bogan (Robt. Phelps & Ruth Limmer, eds.)	Poetry Essays	McGraw Hill 1970
Writing Poems	Michelle Boisseau & Robert Wallace	Poetry Writing Introduction	Longman 2003
A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet	Eavan Boland	Poetry Essays	Carcanet Press Ltd 2011
Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time	Eavan Boland	Poetry Essays	Norton 1995
The Act and the Place of Poetry	Yves Bonnefoy	Poetry Essays	U. of Chicago Press 1989
Borges Selected Non-Fictions	Jorge Luis Borges	Poetry & Writing	Penguin 2000
Borges On Writing	Jorge Luis Borges (di Giovanni, Macshane, Halpern, interviewers)	Writing Interviews	Ecco Press 1972
This Craft of Verse (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures)	Jorge Luis Borges (edited by Calin-Andrei Mihailescu )	Poetry Lectures	Harvard Univ. Press 2000
In the Blue Pharmacy: Essays on Poetry and Other Transformations	Marianne Boruch	Poetry Essays	Trinity U. Press 2005
Poetry's Old Air	Marianne Boruch	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1995
Errata	George Bowering	Short Essays on Writing	Red Deer College Press 1988
Yeats at Work	Curtis Bradford, ed.	Poetry Manuscript Analysis	Southern Illinois Univ. Press 1965
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hiphop	Adam Bradley	Poetics	BasicCivitas 2009
Poems and Their Making	Philip Brady, editor	Poems with Commentary	Etruscan Press 2015
Skeptical Music: Essays on Modern Poetry	David Bromwich	Poetry Criticism	U. of Chicago Press 2001
The Well-Wrought Urn	Cleanth Brooks	Poetry Criticism	Harvest Books 1956
Don't Ask Me What I Mean: Modern poets in their own words	Clare Brown & Don Paterson	Poetry Essays	Picador 2003
Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets	Joseph Bruchac, ed.	Interviews	Sun Tracks/U. of Arizona Press, 1987 1987
On the Anarchy of Poetry and Philosophy - A Guide for the Unruly	Gerald L. Bruns	Poetry Criticism	Fordham U. Press 2006
The Materiality of Poetry	Gerald L. Bruns	Poetry Criticism, Theory	U. of Georgia Press 2005
Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life	Sharon Bryan and Willam Olson, eds.	Poetry Essays	Sarabande Books 2003
The Flexible Lyric	Ellen Bryant Voigt	Poetry Essays	U. of Georgia Press 1999
The Main of Light: On the Concept of Poetry	Justus Buchler	Philosophy	Oxford 1974
What Will Suffice: Contemporary American Poets on the Art of Poetry	Christopher Buckley & Christopher Merrill, eds.	Poems with Commentary	Gibbs M. Smith 1995
Basil Bunting on Poetry	Basil Bunting, edited by Peter Makin	Poetry Essays	Johns Hopkins U. Press 1999
The Philosophy of Literary Form: Studies in Symbolic Action	Kenneth Burke	Essays: Poetry, Philosophy	Vintage 1941
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful	Edmund Burke (J. T. Boulton, editor)	Philosophy, Aesthetics	U. of Notre Dame Press 1968
A Thing About Language	Gerald Burns	Poetry Criticism	Southern Illinois Univ. Press 1990
The Poem Itself	Stanley Burnshaw, ed.	Poetry Praxis	Holt, Rinehart & Winston 1960
Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry	Stephen Burt	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2009
The poetics of the common knowledge	Don Byrd	Poetry Essays	SUNY Press 1994
Why Read the Classics	Italo Calvino (Jonathan Cope, trans.)	Literary Essays	Vintage 1999
Retrievals	Garrett Caples	Poetry Criticism	Wave Books 2014
The Poem in Its Skin	Paul Carroll	Close Readings of Poems	Follett Publishing Co. 1968
Selected Essays & Reviews	Hayden Carruth	Poetry Essays	Copper Canyon 1996
Language and Myth	Ernst Cassirer	Philosophy	Dover 1953
Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions	Laura Cherry and Robt. Hartwell Fiske	Poetry Praxis	Marion Street Press 2008
How Does A Poem Mean	John Ciardi	Poetry Essays	Houghton Mifflin 1959
Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry	John Ciardi	Poetry Essays	U. of Arkansas Press 1989
The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of the Art and Craft of Poetry.	David Citino, editor	Poetry Essay	Oxford U. Press 2002
First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems and Inspired Them	Carmela Ciuraru, editor	Poems with Commentary	Scribner 2000
The Poetry Beat: Reviewing Eighties	Tom Clark	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1990
The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry	Kevin Clark	Poetry Writing Guidebook	Longman 2007
Concerning Concrete Poetry	Bob Cobbing & Peter Mayer, editors	Poetics	Writers Forum 1978
Biographia Literaria	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Literary Essays	Various Editions
Make Us Wave Back	Michael Collier	Poetry Essays	2007
Conte, Joseph. Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry	Joseph Comte		Cornell Univ. Press 1991
Poetry in Theory: An Anthology 1900-2000	Jon Cook, editor	Poetics	Wiley-Blackwell 2004
Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry	Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon		Rodopi 2008
The Language of Criticism & the Structure of Poetry	R.S. Crane	Literary Criticism	U. of Toronto 1953
The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley	Robert Creeley	Poetry Essays	U. of California Press 1989
A Quick Graph: Collected Notes & Essays	Robert Creeley	Poetry Essays	Four Seasons Foundation 1970
Poetry & Literature: An Introduction to Its Criticism and History	Benedetto Croce (Giovanni Gullace, trans.)	Literary Criticism	S. Illinois U. Press 1981
Structuralist Poetics	Jonathan Culler	Literary Theory	Cornell U. Press 1975
The Problem of Style	J.V. Cunningham	Literary Criticism	Fawcett Publications 1966
Poetics: an essay on poetry (1852)	Eneas Sweetland Dallas	Poetics	Johnson Reprint 1969
Praising it New—The Best of the New Criticism	Garrick Davis, editor	Poetry Criticism	Swallow Press 2008
On Style	Demetrius	Classic Text	Various Editions
Sad Friends, Drowned Lovers, Stapled Songs	Chard deNiord	Interviews	Marick Press 2011
Poetry As Persuasion	Carl Dennis	Poetry Essays	U. of Georgia Press 2001
Praises and Dispraises - Poetry and Politics, the 20th Century	Terrence Des Pres	Poetry Essays	Viking Press 1988
Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms	Babette Deutsch	Handbook of Techniques and Forms	Funk & Wagnalls 1957
Poetry In Our Time	Babette Deutsch	Poetry Criticism	Columbia U. Press 1952
Art as Experience	John Dewey	Philosophy	Perigree Books 1980
Babel to Byzantium: Poets and Poetry Now	James Dickey	Poetry Criticism	Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1981
Sorties	James Dickey	Poetry Essays	LSU Press 1971
The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poets, and Poetasters,	Thomas M. Disch	Poetrry Criticism	Picador 1996
Best Words, Best Order	Stephen Dobyns	Poetry Essays	Palgrave Macmillan 2003
The Shape of the Dance, the Selected Prose	Michael Donaghy	Poetry Essays
The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry 1970-2000: Essays on the Revolution in American Poetry and Poetics at the End of the Twentieth Century	Joseph Donahue & Edward Foster, eds.	Poetry Essays	Talisman House 2002
Creating Poetry	John Drury	Intro to Poetry Writing
Fictive Certainties	Robert Duncan	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1985
A Selected Prose	Robert Duncan (Robert Bertloff, ed.)	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1995
The H.D. Book	Robert Duncan; M. Boughn and V. Coleman, eds.	Poetry Essays	U. of California 2011
Walking Light	Stephen Dunn	Poetry Essays	Boa Editions 2001
Writng	Margueritte Duras (trans. Mark Polizzotti)	Writing Essays	Lumen Editions 1998
The Consequence of Innovation; 21st Century Poetics	Craig Dworkin, editor	Poetics	Roof Books 2008
The Use of Poetry & the Use of Criticism	T.S. Eliot	Poetry Criticism	Faber & Faber 1933
The Modern Tradition	Richard Ellman & Chas. Fieldelson, Jr., eds.	Literary, Cultural & Art Essays	Oxford 1965
Complete Essays & Other Writings by Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Essays: Poetry, Philosophy	Modern Library 1950
Seven Types of Ambiguity	William Empson	Poetry Criticism	New Directions 1966
Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship	Clayton Eshelman	Poetry Essays	Arundel Books 1989
Towards a New American Poetics	Ekbert Faas, editor	Essays & interviews	Black Sparronw 1978
Performing the Word: African American Poetry as Vernacular Culture	Brown Fahamisha P.	Poetry Essays	Rutgers Univ. Press 1999
Expansive Poetry: Essays on the New Narrative and New Formalism	Frederick Feirstein, editor	Poetry Essays	Story Line Press 1989
Dylan Thomas	Paul Ferris	Biography	Penguin 1978
The Title to the Poem	Anne Ferry	Literary Criticism	Stanford U. Press 1996
The Ghost of Meter: Culture & Prosody in American Free Verse	Annie Finch	Formalism, Metrics	U. of Michigan Press 2000
An Exaltation of Forms	Annie Finch & Katherine Varnes, eds.	Formalism, Metrics	U. of Michigan Press 2002
Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context	Ruth Finnegan	Oral Poetics	Cambridge U. Press 1980
Letters to Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community	Jennifer Firestone & Dana Teen Lomax, eds.	Letters	Saturnalia 2008
Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions	Robert Hartwell Fiske and Laura Cherry, eds	Poetry Praxis	Marion Street Press 2008
Romantic Criticism 1800-1850	R.A. Foakes, editor	Poetry Essays	Arnold Publishers 1968
Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry	Veronica Forrest-Thomson	Poetic Theory	Manchester U. Press 1978
Art of the Novel	E. M. Forster	Writing Essays
Poetry and Poetics in a New Millenium	Edward Foster, editor	Poetics, Poetry Essays	Talisman House Publishers 2000
Poet's Prose: The Crisis in American Verse	Stephen Fredman	Prose Poem Poetics	Cambridge U. Press 1990
A Field Guide to Contemporary Poetics	Stuart Friebert, David Walker & David Young, eds.	Poetry Essays	Oberlin College Press 1997
Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews	Elisabeth Frost & Cynthia Hogue	Interviews & Anthology	U. of Iowa Press 2007
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886-1920	Robert Frost (D. Sheehy, M. Richardson, R. Faggen, eds.)	Letters	Belknap (Harvard U. Press) 2014
Robert Frost on Writing	Robert Frost (Elaine Barry, editor)	Poetry Essays	Rutgers 1973
Selected Prose of Robert Frost	Robert Frost (H. Cox & E.C. Lathem, eds.)	Poetry Essays	Collier Books 1968
The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within	Stephen Fry	Poetry Introduction	Arrow Books 2007
Feeling As A Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry	Alice Fulton	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 1999
Poetic Meter & Poetic Form (revised edition)	Paul Fussell	Prosody, Metrics	Random House 1979
The Poet's Work: 29 Masters of the 20th Century Poetry on the Origin and Practice of Their Art	Reginald Gibbons, editor	Poetry Essays	Houghton Mifflin 1979
Poems of Consciousness: Contemporary Japanese and English-language Haiku in Cross-cultural Perspective	Richard Gilbert	Haiku Poetics	Red Moon Press 2008
Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry & American Culture	Dana Gioia	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 1992
Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry	Dana Gioia, David Mason & Meg Schoerke, eds.	Poetics	McGraw Hill 2003
Proofs & Theories	Louise Glück	Poetry Essays	Ecco Press 1994
The Collected Works: Essays on Art & Literature	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (John Gearey, editor)	Essays, Art, Poetry, etc.	Princeton U. Press 1986
From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry	Alan Golding	Poetry Criticism	U. of Wisconsin Press 1996
After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography	David Graham & Kate Sontag, eds.	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2001
The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth	Robert Graves	Poetry Essay	Farrar Straus Giroux 1966
Oxford Addresses on Poetry	Robert Graves	Poetry Essays	Doubleday 1962
Women Poets on Mentorship	Arielle Greenberg & Rachel Zucker, eds.	Essays & Anthology	U. of Iowa Press 2008
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry (Second Edition)	Harvey Gross and Robert McDowell	Prosody, Metrics	U. of Michigan Press 1996
The Long Schoolroom	Allen Grossman	Poetry Criticism	U. of Michigan Press 1997
True-Love: Essays on Poetry and Writing	Allen Grossman	Poetry Essays	U. of Chicago Press 2009
The Sighted Singer: Two Works on Poetry for Readers & Writers (Part II: Summa Lyrica)	Allen Grossman (and Mark Halliday, interviewer)	Poetics	Johns Hopkins U. Press 1991
Of Manywhere-at-Once	Bob Grumman	Poetry Essays	Runaway Spoon Press 1998
The Vocation of Poetry	Durs Grünbein	Poetry Essays	Upper West Side Philosophers, Inc. 2011
Shelf Life	Thom Gunn	Poetry Essays	Faber 1994
New Expansive Poetry	R.S. Gwynn, editor	Poetry Essays	Story Line Press 1995
Goatfoot Milktongue Twinbird: Interviews, Essays, and Notes on Poetry, 1970-76	Donald Hall	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1978
Poetry & Ambition	Donald Hall	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1988
Claims for Poetry	Donald Hall, editor	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1983
The Truth of Poetry: Tensions in Modern Poetry from Baudelaire to the Nineteen-Sixties	Michael Hamburger	Poetry Criticism	Anvil Press 1996
Classic Writings on Poetry	William Harmon	Poetry Essays	Columbia U. Press 2003
Poetry Criticism Reader	Jerry Harp and Jan Weissmiller, eds.	Poetry Criticism	U. of Iowa Press 2006
Free Verse: an essay on prosody	Charles O. Hartman	Poetry Essays, Prosody	Northwestern Univ. Press 1996
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World	Robert Hass	Essays	Ecco 2012
Twentieth Century Pleasures	Robert Hass	Poetry Essays	Ecco Press 1984
Robert Hayden: Collected Prose	Robert Hayden (F. Glaysher, ed.; foreword by Wm. Meredith)	Literary Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1984
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-78	Seamus Heaney	Poetry Essays	Farrar Straus Giroux 1980
The Redress of Poetry	Seamus Heaney	Poetry Essays	Farrar Straus Giroux 1995
Poetry, Language, Thought	Martin Heidegger (trans. by Albert Hofstadter)	Philosophy	Harper Colophon Books 1975
The Language of Inquiry	Lyn Hejinian	Poetry Essays	Univ. of California Press 2000
A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writingin the Expanded Field, 1982-1998	Lyn Hejinian & Barret Watten, eds.	Poetics	Wesleyan U. Press 2013
Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics	Michael Heller	Poetry Essays	Salt Publishing 2005
A Defence of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing	Paul Henry	Poetry Criticism	Stanford U. Press 1995
Strong Words: Modern Poets on Modern Poetry	W.N. Herbert & Matthew Hollis, eds.	Poetry Essays	Bloodaxe Books 2000
Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End	Barbara Herrnstein Smith	Poetry Essays	U. of Chicago 2007
Pattern Poetry: Guide to an Unknown Literature	Dick Higgins	Poetry Criticism	State University of New York Press, Albany 1984
Collected Critical Writings	Geoffrey Hill	Poetry Criticism	Oxford U. Press 2008
How To Read a Poem - And Fall in Love With Poetry	Edward Hirsch	Introduction to Poetry	Harvest Books 2002
The Demon and the Angel	Edward Hirsch	Poety Essays	Harcourt 2002
Poet's Choice	Edward Hirsch	Short Poetry Essays	Mariner Books 2007
Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry	Jane Hirshfield	Poetry Essays	HarperCollins 1997
Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World	Jane Hirshfield	Poetry Essays	Alfred A. Knopf 2015
Hiddenness, Uncertainty, Surprise: Three Generative Energies of Poetry	Jane Hirshfield	Poety Essays	Bloodaxe Books 2008
As Easy As Lying: Essays on Poetry	H. L. Hix	Poetry Essays	Etruscan Press 2002
Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft	Tony Hoagland	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2006
Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays	Tony Hoagland	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2014
Metre, Rhythm and Verse Form	Philip Hobsbaum	Formalism, Metrics	Routledge 1999
Essentials Of Literary Criticism	Philip Hobsbaum	Poetry Criticism	Thames & Hudson 1993
Tradition and Experiment in English Poetry	Philip Hobsbaum	Poetry Criticism	Macmillan 1979
The Fate of American Poetry	Jonathan Holden	Poetry Criticism	U. of Georgia Press 2008
The Old Formalism: Character in Contemporary American Poetry	Jonathan Holden	Poetry Criticism	U. of Arkansas Press 1999
The Rhetoric of the Contemporary Lyric	Jonathan Holden	Poetry Criticism	Indiana Univ. Press 1980
Style and Authenticity of Postmodern Poetry	Jonathan Holden	Poetry Criticism	U. of Missouri Press 1986
Rhyme's Reason	John Hollander	Formalism, Metrics	Yale U. Press 1981
The Epistles (Book II, Ars Poetica)	Horace	Classic Text, Essay in Verse	Various Editions
Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism	Chaviva Hosek & Partricia Parker, eds.	Poetry Criticism	Cornell U. Press 1985
Alone With America	Richard Howard	Poetry Essays	Atheneum 1980
Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003	Richard Howard	Poetry Essays	FSG 2005
My Emily Dickinson	Susan Howe	Poetry Criticism	North Atlantic Books 1985
Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees	Christopher Buckley & Christopher Howell, eds.	Poetry and Essays	Backwaters Press 2011
Donald Justice in Conversation	Philip Hoy, interviewer	Interviews	Waywiser Press 2001
Poetry Is	Ted Hughes	Poetry Guidebook	Doubleday 1970
The Triggering Town	Richard Hugo	Poetry Essays	Norton 1979
Speculations: Essays on Humanism & Philsophy of Art	T.E. Hulme	Philosophy Essays	Routledge & Kegan Paul 1987
The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property	Lewis Hyde	Art Essays	Vintage 2007
The Auden Generation	Samuel Hynes	Poetry Criticism	Princeton U. Press 1982
The Art of Chinese Poetry	James J. Y. Liu	Chinese Poetics	U. of Chicago Press 1966
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language	Laura (Riding) Jackson (John Nolan, ed.)	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan 2007
The Instant of Knowing	Josephine Jacobsen	Poetry Essay	Library of Congress (pamphlet)
Poetspeak: In their work, about their work	Paul B. Janeczko, editor	Poems with Commentary	Bradbury Press 1983
Body and Soul: Essays on Poetry	Mark Jarman	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 2002
The Secret of Poetry	Mark Jarman	Poetry Essays	Story Line Press 2001
The Reaper Essays	Mark Jarman & Robert McDowell	Poetry Essays	Story Line Press 1996
Kipling, Auden & Company: Essays & Reviews 1935-1964	Randall Jarrell	Poetry Essays & Reviews	Farrar Straus Giroux 1980
Poetry and The Age	Randall Jarrell	Poetry Essays & Reviews	Vintage 1959
The Complete Perfectionist: A Poetics of Work	Juan Ramon Jiménez (Christopher Maurer, trans. and editor)	Poetry Quotes	Doubleday 1997
The Idea of Lyric	W.R. Johnson	Poetry Criticism	U. of California Press 1982
Origins: Poets on the Composition Process (Poetry East, No. 43, Fall 1996)	Richard Jones, editor	Poems with Commentary	Poetry East, No. 43, Fall 1996 1996
A Nomad Poetics	Pierre Joris		Wesleyan U. Press 2003
Donald Justice Reader	Donald Justice	Poetry Essays	University Press of New England 2003
Criticism: Major Statements	Charles Kaplan & William Anderson, eds.	Literary Criticism	Bedford/St. Martins 1999
Robinson Jeffers: Poet of California	James Karman	Biography	Chronicle Books 1987
Dark Horses: Poets on Overlooked Poems	Joy Katz and Keven Prufer, eds.	Poems with Commentary	U. of Illinois Press 2006
Thinking Poetry: Readings in Contemporary Women's Exploratory Poetics	Lynn Keller	Poetry Criticism	U. of Iowa Press 2010
Poet to Poet: Edward Thomas’s Letters to Walter de la Mare	Judy Kendall, editor	Letters	Seren 2012
Handbook of Literary Terms: Literature, Language, Theory	X. J. Kennedy	Literary Guidebook	Longman 2004
Gnomon: Essays on Contemporary Literature	Hugh Kenner	Literary Criticism	Astor-Honor Inc. 1958
A Homemade World: The American Modernist Writers	Hugh Kenner	Literary Criticism	Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1989
The Pound Era	Hugh Kenner	Poetry Criticism	U. of California 1971
Art and Philosophy: Readings in Aesthetics	William Kennick, ed.	Aesthetics	St. Martin's Press 1964
The Philosophical Poetics of Alfarabi, Avicenna and Averroes	Salim Kermal	Poetics	Routledge/Curzon 2003
The Romantic Image	Frank Kermode	Literary Criticism	Vintage 1964
The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling	Mary Kinzie	Poetry Essays	U. of Chicago Press 1993
A Poet's Guide to Poetry, Second Edition	Mary Kinzie		U. of Chicago Press 2013
Writing Poetry: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them	David Kirby	Poetry Writing Introduction	Writer, Inc. 1989
The Poetry of Criticism: Horace Epistles II and Ars Poetica	Ross S. Kirkpatrick	Poetry Criticism	U. of Alberta Press 1990
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry	Kenneth Koch	Introduction to Poetry	Simon & Schuster 1998
Blue Notes: Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries	Yusef Komunyakaa	Poetry Essays, etc.	U. of Michigan Press 2000
The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets	Ted Kooser	Intro to Poetry Writing	Bison Book 2007
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philsophers	Leonard Koren	Aesthetics, Philosophy	Imperfect Publishing 2008
In the Palm of Your Hand: The Poet's Portable Workshop	Steve Kowit	Poetry Praxis	Tilbury House 1995
Art of the Novel	Milan Kundera	Writing Essays
Toward the Open Field: Poets on the Art of Poetry 1800-1950	Melissa Kwasny, editor	Poetry Essays	Wesleyan U. Press 2004
More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor	George Lakoff and Mark Turner	Poetry Criticism	University Of Chicago Press 1989
Written in Water, Written in Stone: Twenty Years of Poets on Poetry	Martin Lammon, editor	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1996
Feeling and Form	Susanne K. Langer	Philosophy, Aesthetics	Chas. Scribners 1953
The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience	Ann Lauterbach	Poetry Essays	Penguin 2005
Paul Valéry: An Anthology	James Lawler, editor	Art and Literary Essays	Routledge 1977
Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008	Hank Lazer	Poetry Criticism	Omnidawn 2008
Ecstatic Occasions, Epedient Forms	David Lehman, editor	Poems with Commentary	U. of Michigan Press 1996
Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays	L.T. Lemon & M.J. Reis, trans.	Literary Criticism	U. of Nebraska Press 1965
Another Look: Selected Prose	Gary Lenhart	Poetry Reviews	Subpress 2010
Modernist Quartet	Frank Lentricchia	Poetry Criticism	Cambridge U. Press 1994
Light Up the Cave	Denise Levertov	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1981
New & Selected Essays	Denise Levertov	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1992
The Noise Made by Poems	Peter Levi	Poetics: Meter	Anvil Press 1984
The art of poetry: the Oxford lectures, 1984-1989	Peter Levi	Poetry Criticism	Yale Univ. Press 1991
The Poetic Image	C. Day Lewis	Poetics	Putnam 1984
Unassigned Frequencies: American Poetry in Review, 1964-77	Laurence Lieberman	Poetry Essays	U. of Illinois Press 1977
The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop	Diane Lockward	Poetry Guidebook	Wind Publications 2013
All the Rage	William Logan	Poetry Essays, Reviews	U. of Michigan Press 1998
Desperate Measures	William Logan		2002
Our Savage Art	William Logan		2009
Reputations of the Tongue	William Logan		1999
The Undiscovered Country	William Logan		2005
The Art of the Poetic Line	James Longenbach	Poetics	Graywolf Press 2007
Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats & Modernism	James Longenbach	Poetry Criticism	Oxford 1998
The Resistance to Poetry	James Longenbach	Poetry Essays	U. of Chicago Press 2005
On the Sublime	Longinus	Classic Text, Rhetoric & Aesthetics	Various Editions
In Search of Duende	Federico Garcia Lorca (N. T. DiGiovanni & C. Maurer, trans.)	Art Essays	New Directions 1999
You Must Change Your Life: Poetry, Philosophy, and the Birth of Sense	John T. Lysaker	Poetics, Philosophy	Penn. St. Univ. Press 1998
Poetry & Experience	Archibald MacLeish	Poetry Essays	Houghton Mifflin 1960
Emancipating Pragmatism: Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing	Michael Magee		U. of Alabama Press 2004
Creative Intuition in Art & Poetry	Jacques Maritain	Poetry & Art Essays	Pantheon 1953
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry	David Mason & John Frederick Nims	Introduction to Poetry	McGraw-Hill 2005
Versification: A Short Introduction	James McAuley	Formalism, Metrics	Michigan State U. Press 1966
White Paper: On Contemporary American Poetry	J.D. McClatchy	Poetry Essays	Columbia Univ.Press 1990
The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice	Gary L. McDowell and F. Daniel Rzicznek, co-editors		Rose Metal Press 2010
Broken English: Poetry and Partiality	Heather McHugh	Poetry Essay	Wesleyan U. Press 1993
By Herself: Women Poets on Poetry	Molly McQuade	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2000
Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets, and Things In Between	Molly McQuade	Poetry Essays	Sarabande Books 1999
12 x 12: Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics	Christina Mengert & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, eds.	Interviews	U. of Iowa Press 2009
Worlds into Words: Understanding Modern Poems	Diane Middlebrook	Poetry Criticism	Norton 1980
The Witness of Poetry	Czeslaw Milosz	Poetry Essays	Harvard U. Press 1983
Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale	Eugenio Montale (translated by Jonathan Galassi)	Poetry Essays	Ecco 1982
Invisible Fences: Prose Poetry as a Genre in French and American Literature	Steven Monte	Prose Poem Poetics	Univ. of Nebraska Press 2000
Predilections: literary essays	Marianne Moore	Poetry Essays	Viking Press 1955
The Estate of Poetry	Edwin Muir	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 1993
The End of the Poem: Oxford Lectures	Paul Muldoon	Poetry Essays	Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007
The Bedford Glossary of Critical & Literary Terms	Ross Murfin & Supryia M. Ray	Literary Reference	Bedford 1997
The Portable Poetry Workshop	Jack Myers	Poetry Writing Guidebook	Wadsworth Publishing 2004
Poetry as Performance: Homer and Beyond	Gregory Nagy	Poetry Criticism	Cambridge U. Press 1996
Poetry in Person:Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America’s Poets	Alexander Neubauer, editor	Poetry praxis, Interviews	Knopf 2010
Portable MFA in Creative Writing	New York Writers Workshop	Multi-Genre Writing Guide	Writers Digest Books 2006
Basic Writings of Nietzsche	Friedrich Nietzsche	Philosophy, Aesthetics	Modern Library 2000
Western Wind	John Frederick Nims	Introduction to Poetry	Random House 1974
The Failure of Poetry, The Promise of Language	John Nolan, ed.	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 2007
Coming After, Essays on Poetry	Alice Notley	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 2005
The Outnumbered Poet: Critical and Autobiographical Essays	Denis O'Driscoll	Poetry Essays	Gallery Press 2013
Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry	Denis O'Driscoll	Poetry Quotes	Copper Canyon 2008
The Bloodaxe Book of Poetry Quotations	Dennis O'Driscoll, editor	Poetry Quotes	Bloodaxe Books 2006
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney	Denis O'Driscoll, interviewer	Interviews	Faber & Faber 2008
Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing & Reading Metrical Verse	Mary Oliver	Formalism, Metrics	Mariner Books 1998
A Poetry Handbook	Mary Oliver	Handbook of Techniques and Forms	Harvest Books 1994
The Poetry of Dylan Thomas	Elder Olson	Poetry Criticism	U. of Chicago Press 1954
Orality and Literacy, the Technologizing of the Word	Walter Ong, SJ	Literary Criticism	Routledge 1982
Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers	George Oppen (Stephen Cope, ed.)	Poetry Essays and Notes	U. of California Press 2005
Poets Teaching Poets	Gregory Orr & Ellen Bryant Voigt, editors	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1996
Selected Writing of Charles Olson	Charles Oslon (Robt. Creeley, editor)	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1966
The Sullen Art	David Ossman, interviewer	Poet Interviews	Corinth Books 1963
Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America	Alicia Ostriker	Poetry Criticism	Beacon Press 1986
Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices	William Packard	Handbook of Techniques and Forms	Collins Reference 1994
The Art of Poetry Writing: A Guide For Poets, Students, & Readers	William Packard & Karl Shapiro, eds.	Poetry Writing Introduction	St. Martin's Press 1992
52 Ways of Looking at a Poem	Ruth Padel	Poetry Essays	Vintage 2004
The Teachers and Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms	Ron Padgett, editor	Poetry Guidebook	Teachers & Writers Collaborative 2000
Active Boundaries: Selected Essays and Talks	Michael Palmer	Poetry Essays	New Directions 2008
Why Poetry Matters	Jay Parini	Poetry Essays	Yale U. Press 2008
Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem	Robert Pack and Jay Parini, editors	Essays on Single Poems	Middlebury College Press 1996
Journal of Albion Moonlight	Kenneth Patchen	Poet's Novel
Essays on Literature and Art	Walter Pater	Aesthetics, Art & Literary Essays	Everyman Library 2009
The Bow & the Lyre	Octavio Paz	Poetry Essays	U. of Texas Press, Austin 1973
On Poets And Others	Octavio Paz	Poetry Essays	Seaver Books 1986
The Other Voice	Octavio Paz	Poetry Essays	Harvest Books 1992
How To Read A Poem & Start A Poetry Circle	Molly Peacock	Poetry Essays	Riverhead Trade 2000
The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky	Bob Perelman	Literary Criticism	California Univ. Press 1994
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History	Bob Perelman	Poetry Essays	Princeton U. Press 1996
Writing/Talks (Poetics of the New)	Bob Perelman, editor	Essays	Southern Illinois University Press 1985
Poetics of Inderterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage	Majorie Perloff	Poetry Criticism	Princeton U. Press 1981
Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary	Majorie Perloff	Poetry Essays	U. of Chicago Press 1999
Poetics in a New Key	Marjorie Perloff and edited by Jonathan Bayot	Poetry Criticism	U. of Chicago Press 2014
Sound and Sense: An Introduction to Poetry	Laurence Perrine	Prosody, Metrics
Always Astonished: Selected Prose	Fernando Pessoa, translated by Edwin Honig	Poetry, Poetics	City Lights Publishers 2001
The Peters' Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, first series	Robert Peters	Poetry Criticism	Cherry Valley Editions 1983
The Peters' Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, second series	Robert Peters	Poetry Criticism	Cherry Valley Editions 1985
Revised Edition of Hunting The Snark: American Poetry at Century End: Classifications and Commentary	Robert Peters	Poetry Criticism	Avisson Press 1997
Poetry And The World	Robert Pinsky	Poetry Criticism	Ecco Press 1988
The Situation of Poetry	Robert Pinsky	Poetry Criticism	Princeton U. Press 1983
The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide	Robert Pinsky	Prosody, Metrics	Farrar Straus Giroux 1978
Essays and Reviews	Edgar Allan Poe	Litterary Criticism	Library of America
Frost: the Work of Knowing	Richard Poirier	Poetry Criticism	Stanford U. Press 1990
Selected Prose: 1909-1965	Ezra Pound	Literary Essays	New Directions 1973
ABC of Reading	Ezra Pound	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1934
Guide to Kulchur	Ezra Pound	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1968
Literary Essays	Ezra Pound	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1968
Where You're At: Poetics & Visual Art	Kevin Power, interviewer	Interviews	Poltroon Press 2011
The Imagist Poem	William Pratt, ed.	Poetry Criticism	Dutton 1963
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics (3rd Edition)	Alex Preminger, editor	Poetry Reference	Princeton U. Press 1993
On Poets & Poetry	William H. Pritchard	Poetry Criticism	Swallow Press
Playing It By Ear: Literary Essays and Reviews	William H. Pritchard	Poetry Criticism	Univ. of Mass. Press 1994
Like a Writer	Francine Prose	Writing Essays
Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe	Peter Quatermain	Poetry Criticism	Cambridge 1992
Exercises in Style	Raymond Queneau	Writing Essay in Versions of Single Story	New Directions 1981
American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language	Claudia Rankine & Julianne Spahr	Poetry Criticism	Wesleyan Univ. Press 2002
Modernism and Poetic Inspiration	Jed Rasula	Poetry Criticism
Modernism and Poetic Inspiration: The Shadow Mouth	Jed Rasula	Poetry Criticism	Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry	Jed Rasula	Poetry Criticism	U. of Alabama Press 2004
The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990	Jed Rasula	Poetry Criticism	Nat'l Council of Teachers 1996
Giving Their Word: Conversations With Contemporary Poets Paperback	Steven Ratiner, ed.	Interviews	U. of Massachusetts Press 2004
MFA in a Box: A Why to Write Book	John Rember	Writing Essays	Dream of Things 2011
The Art of Attention: A Poet's Eye	Donald Revell	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2007
Assays	Kenneth Rexroth	Poetry & Literary Essays	New Directions 1961
American Poetry in the Twentieth Century	Kenneth Rexroth	Poetry Essays	Continuum Book 1973
Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man.	Barbara Reynolds	Literary criticism, biography	Counterpoint Press 2006
Blood, Bread and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1986	Adrienne Rich	Poetry Essays	Norton 1986
On Lies, Secrets and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978	Adrienne Rich	Poetry Essays	Norton 1979
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics	Adrienne Rich	Poetry Essays	Norton 1993
Centering in pottery, poetry, and the person	M.C. Richards	Art Essays	Wesleyan U. Press 1962
Practical Criticism	I. A. Richards	Literary Criticism	Harvest Books 1956
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process	Robert D. Richardson	Essays Excerpted	U. of Iowa Press 2009
First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process	Robert D. Richardson, ed.	Excerpts from Essays	U. of Iowa Press 2009
Poets on Writing: Britain 1970–1991	Denise Riley, editor	Poetry Essays	Macmillan 1992
Letters on Cezanne	Rainer Maria Rilke (ed. Clara Rilke; trans. by Joel Agee)	Art Essays	Fromme International 1985
Where Silence Reigns: Selected Prose	Rainer Maria Rilke (G. Craig Houston, trans.)	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1978
Letters to a Young Poet	Rainer Maria Rilke (M. D. Herter, trans.)	Letters	Norton 1934
Poetry and Translation: The Art of the Impossible	Peter Robinson	Poetry Translation	Liverpool U. Press 2010
Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke 1943-1963	Theodore Roethke (David Wagoner, ed.)	Poet's Journal	Doubleday 1972
On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose	Theodore Roethke (Ralph J. Mills, ed.)	Poetry Essays	U. of Washington Press 1965
The Dream of the Marsh Wren	Patiann Rogers	Poetry Essays	Milkweed Editions 1999
The Modern Poetic Sequence	M.L. Rosenthal & Sally M. Gall	Poetry Criticism	Oxford U. Press 1986
A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line	Emily Rosko & Anton Vander Zee	Poetics	Univ. of Iowa Press 2011
Poetics & Polemics: 1980-2005	Jerome Rothenberg	Poetry Essays	U. of Alabama Press 2008
The Life of Poetry	Muriel Rukeyser	Poetry Essays	Paris Press 1996
Beyond the Lyric: A Map of Contemporary British Poetry.	Fiona Sampson	Poetry Criticism	Chatto & Windus 2012
The World of Poetry: Poets & Critics on the Art & Function of Poetry	Clive Sansom, ed.	Poetry Quotes	Phoenix House 1959
Naïve & Sentimental Poetry - On the Sublime	Friedrich von Schiller	Philosophy, Poetry, Aesthetics	Frederick Ungar Publishing 1966
Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms	Friedrich Schlegel (trans. by Behler & Struc)	Poetics	Penn. St. Univ. Press 1968
Lives of the Poets	Michael Schmidt	Poet Bios and Commentary	Vintage 2000
Schopenhauer: Essays & Aphorisms	Arthur Schopenhauer (RJ Hollingdale, trans.)	Philosophy	Penguin 1970
Sparring with the Sun: Poets and the Ways We Think about Poetry in the Late Days of Modernism	Jan Schreiber	Poetry Criticism	Antilever Press 2013
Modern Poetics: Essays on Poetry	James Scully, editor	Poetics Essays	McGraw Hill 1965
A Poet's Journal: Days of 1945-1951	George Seferis	Poet's Journal	Belknap (Harvard U. Press) 1974
Prose Keys to Modern Poetry	Karl Shapiro, editor	Poetry Essays	U. of Nebraska Press 1962
A Defence of Poetry	Percy Bysshe Shelley	Poetry Essay	Various Editions
Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose	Mick Short	Criticism, Linguistics	Addison Wesley 1996
A Defense of Poetry	Sir Philip Sidney	Poetry Essay	Various Editions
The New Sentence	Ron Silliman	Poetry Essays	Roof Books 1987
Leopardi and the Theory of Poetry	G. Singh	Literary Criticism	U. of Kentucky Press 1964
A Poet's Notebook	Edith Sitwell	Poetry Quotes	Macmillan & Co. 1944
Broken Lines – The Art & Craft of Poetry	Judith Skillman
Interview with a Ghost	Tom Sleigh	Poetry Essays	Graywolf Press 2006
Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry	Dave Smith	Poetry Essay	U. of Illinois Press 1985
Craft-Talk: On Writing Poetry	Frederick Smock	Poetry Essays	Wind Publications 2008
Poetry and Compassion: Essays on Art and Craft	Frederick Smock	Poetry Essays	Wind Publications 2006
De/Compositions	W.S. Snodgrass	Poetry Praxis	Graywolf Press 2001
To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry	W.D. Snodgrass	Poetry Essays	Boa Editions 2002
Against Interpretation and Other Essays	Susan Sontag	Critical Essays	Picador 2001
The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry	Lisa Russ Spaar	Short Essays on Various Poems	Drunken Boat Media 2013
Toward Total Poetry	Adriano Spatola	Poetics	Otis Books/Seismicity Edition 2008
The Making of a Poem	Stephen Spender	Poetry Essays	Norton 1962
House That Jack Built: the Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer	Jack Spicer (Peter Gizzi, ed.)	Poetry Essays	Wesleyan U. Press 1998
How Poets See the World: The Art of Description in Contemporary Poetry Book	Willard Spiegelman	Poetry Criticism	Oxford U. Press 2005
Where The Angels Come Toward Us	David St. John	Poetry Essays	White Pine Press 1995
Writing the Australian Crawl	William Stafford	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 1978
Missing Measures: Modern Poetry and the Revolt Against Meter	Timonthy Steele	Poetry Essays	U. of Arkansas Press 1990
All The Fun's In How You Say A Thing: An Explanation Of Meter & Versification	Timonthy Steele	Prosody, Metrics	Ohio Univ. Press 1999
Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose	Leo Stein	Art Essays	Random House 1947
How Writing is Written: Volume II of the Previously Uncollected Writings	Gertrude Stein (Robert Bartlett Haas, ed.)	Essays	Black Sparrow Press 1974
The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality & the Imagination	Wallace Stevens	Poetry Essays	Vintage 1951
Sur Plusiers Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Books	Wallace Stevens (Milton Bates, ed.)	Poet's Commonplace Book	Stanford U. Press 1989
The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making	Susan Stewart	Essays	Univ. of Chicago 2011
Poetry and the Fate of the Senses	Susan Stewart	Poetry Essays	University of Chicago Press 2002
Theories & Documents of Contemporary Art: A Source Book of Artist's Writings	Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, eds.	Art Essays	U. of California 1996
Weather of Words: Poetic Inventions	Mark Strand	Poetry Essays	Knopf
The Three Perfections: Chinese Painting, Poetry, and Calligraphy	Michael Sullivan	Poetry & Art	George Braziller 1999
Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetics	John Taggert	Poetry Essays	U. of Alabama Press 1994
A Companion to The Cantos of Ezra Pound	Carroll D. Terrell	Poetry Criticism	Univ. of California Press 1993
The Uses of Poetry	Denys Thompson	Poetry History and Criticism	Cambridge U. Press 1978
Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns	Michael Thuene	Poetry Praxis	Teachers & Writers Collaborative 2007
Poet's Work, Poet's Play: Essays on the Practice and the Art	Daniel Tobin & Pimone Triplett, editors	Poetry Essays	U. of Michigan Press 2008
On Elizabeth Bishiop	Colm Tóibín	Critical Biography	Princeton U. Press 2015
What Is Art?	Leo Tolstoy (translated by R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky)	Essay	Penguin Classics 1996
American Essays	Charles Tomlinson	Poetry Essays	Carcanet Press Ltd
The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics (3rd Edition)	Lewis Turco	Formalism, Metrics	U. of New England Press 2000
45 Contemporary Poems: The Creative Process	Albeta Turner	Poetry Praxis	Longman 1985
If You Want to Write	Brenda Ueland	Writing Essays	Graywolf Press 1987
Lives of the Poets: The Story of One Thousand Years of English & American Poetry	Louis Untermeyer	Short Biographical Essays	Replica Books 1999
The Poetics of Paul Valéry	Paul Valéry, translated by Richard Howard	Poetics	Anchor Books 1966
Introduction to Poetry: Commentaries on Thirty Poems	Mark Van Doren	Poetry Praxis	Hill & Wang 1968
Lives of the Artists	Giorgio Vasari (E. L. Seeley, trans.)	Artist Biographies	Noonday 1957
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets	Helen Vendler	Poetry Criticism	Harvard Univ. Press 1999
Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats	Helen Vendler	Poetry Criticism	Harvard U. Press 2006
Soul Says	Helen Vendler	Poetry Criticism	Harvard U. Press 1995
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire	Helen Vendler	Poetry Criticism	U. of Tenn. Press 1984
Talking Poetics from Naropa Institute: Annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics	Anne Waldman & Marilyn Webb, eds.	Poetics	Shambhala 1978
Telling It Slant: Avant Garde Poetics in the 1990s	Mark Wallace	Poetry Essays	U. of Alabama Press 2001
John Dryden on Dramatic Poetry and other critical essays	George Watson, editor	Poetry Essays	J.M. Dent & Sons 1962
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei	Eliot Weinberger & Octavio Paz, editors	Praxis, Translation Studies	Moyer Bell 1987
Concepts of Criticism	René Wellek	Literary Criticism	Yale U. Press 1963
Theory Of Literature	René Wellek & Austin Warren	Literary Criticism	Mariner Books 1984
This Art: poems about poetry	Michael Wiegers, ed.	Ars Poetica Poems	Copper Canyon 2003
The Lyric Touch: Essays on the Poetry of Excess	John Wilkinson	Poetry Criticism	Salt Publishing 2007
The Embodiment of Knowledge	William Carlos Williams	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1974
Selected Essays of William Carlos Williams	William Carlos Williams	Poetry Essays	New Directions 1969
Patterns of Poetry: An Encyclopedia of Forms	Miller Williams	Prosody, Formalism, Metrics	Louisiana State U. Press 1986
The Rag-Picker's Guide to Poetry	Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning, eds.	Poems with Commentary	U. of Michigan Press 2013
Axel's Castle	Edmund Wilson	Literary Essays	Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2002
The Triple Thinkers: Twelve Essays on Literary Subjects	Edmund Wilson	Literary Essays	Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1976
In Defense of Reason	Yvor Winters	Poetry Essays	U. of Denver Press 1937
The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem	Shira Wolosky	Poetry Guidebook	Oxford U. Press 2001
How Fiction Works	James Woods	Fiction Studies	Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
Preface to Lyrical Ballads	Willam Wordsworth	Poetry Essays	Various Editions
The Japanese Haiku	Kenneth Yasuda	Poetry Criticism	Chas. E. Tuttle Co. 1957
Essays & Introductions	W. B. Yeats	Literary Essays	Collier Books 1961
A Defence of Ardor	Adam Zagajewski (Clare Cavanaugh, trans.)	Poetry and Art Essays	Farrar Straus Giroux 2004
Multum in Parvo: an essay in poetic imagination	Carl Zigrosser	Poetry Essays	George Braziller 1965
Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays	Louis Zukofsky	Poetry Criticism	Wesleyan U. Press 2000
Lyrical Philosophy	Jan Zwicky	Poetry, Philosophy	U. of Toronto Press 1992
Wisdom & Metaphor	Jan Zwicky	Poetry, Philosophy	Gaspereau Press 2003