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Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
4.27 average rating, · 130.1k ratings
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Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Natalie Goldberg
4.21 average rating, · 32.3k ratings
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Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver
4.16 average rating, · 26.7k ratings
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Poetry Handbook, A
Mary Oliver
4.23 average rating, · 9.9k ratings
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On Connection
Kae Tempest
4.14 average rating, · 6.7k ratings
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Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life
Natalie Goldberg
4.14 average rating, · 6.6k ratings
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Journal of a Solitude
May Sarton
4.13 average rating, · 6.4k ratings
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The Word Collector
Peter H. Reynolds
4.38 average rating, · 5.1k ratings
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Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
David Whyte
4.45 average rating, · 4.5k ratings
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Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
Durga Chew-Bose
4.01 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
Stephen Fry
4.06 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life
Howard Sounes
4.20 average rating, · 3.5k ratings
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Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
Mary Ruefle
4.42 average rating, · 3k ratings
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The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
Richard Hugo
4.17 average rating, · 3.1k ratings
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Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World
Pádraig Ó Tuama
4.50 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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The Important Book
Margaret Wise Brown
4.08 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words
Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge
4.17 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Light and Thread
Han Kang
4.05 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.28 average rating, · 2.3k ratings
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The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry
Kim Addonizio
4.15 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle
Aristotle
4.00 average rating, · 2.5k ratings
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The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms
Mark Strand
4.01 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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This Craft of Verse
Jorge Luis Borges
4.31 average rating, · 2k ratings
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Neil Astley
4.34 average rating, · 2k ratings
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