What to Read After The Art of the Poetic Line
Readers who loved The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Art of the Poetic Line 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 The Art of the Poetic Line
The art of syntax
The poetry home repair manual
The Sounds of Poetry
Poetic meter and poetic form
Nine Gates
Madness, Rack, and Honey
The Practice of Poetry
Ordinary Genius
Proofs & theories
Rules for the dance
Rhyme's reason
The life of poetry.
What is found there
The discovery of poetry
The Triggering Town
Slow lightning
The wild iris
When My Brother Was an Aztec
Dancing in Odessa
The Dyer's Hand
The Necessary Angel
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing
Elizabeth Bishop
The Poet's Companion