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A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
Slim, bossy and erudite, this is one of the only practical books about poetry that I’ve read. Oliver demonstrates the techniques of poetry and defines the terms as well as what NOT to do. She also reveals something harder to capture; the undeniable value of the organic, the intuitive, the happy accidental and the often associative that comprise genius.