What to Read After How to Read a Poem
Readers who loved How to Read a Poem by Edward Hirsch keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where How to Read a Poem is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after How to Read a Poem
The poetry home repair manual
A Poetry Handbook
Nine Gates
Break, blow, burn
The Best Poems of the English Language
The Sounds of Poetry
The Necessary Angel
Can poetry matter?
The life of poetry.
Dickinson
The Poet's Companion
The Triggering Town
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The Practice of Poetry
Poems, new and collected, 1957-1997
Given Sugar, Given Salt
Why I wake early
Rules for the dance
Collected poems, 1957-1982
The City in Which I Love You
The discovery of poetry
The Vintage book of contemporary American poetry
Ararat
The dream of the unified field