Flying At Night
by Ted Kooser | 
A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver |
Poemcrazy
by Susan G. Wooldridge | 
The Sounds of Poetry
by Robert Pinsky |
Wonderful Words
by Lee Bennett Hopkins |
On Poetry and Craft
by Theodore Roethke | 
You Must Revise Your Life
by William Stafford |
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry
by Jack Prelutsky | 
The Far Field
by Theodore Roethke | 
Garbage
by A. R. Ammons | 
Lighthead
by Terrance Hayes | 
The Bridge
by Hart Crane | 
Actual Air
by David Berman | 
Spring and All
by William Carlos Williams | 
Words Under the Words
by Naomi Shihab Nye | 
The Lives of the Heart
by Jane Hirshfield | 
Dream Work
by Mary Oliver |
Red Bird
by Mary Oliver |
The Way It Is
by William Stafford |
The Book of Images
by Rainer Maria Rilke |
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 decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets--aspiring or practicing--can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry's ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend--a friend who is willing to share everything he's learned about the art he's spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.