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Poetry Library Guide

This guide provides library and internet resources for the finding, reading, and writing poetry as well as criticism on it.

General

Out of Sri Lanka by Vidyan Ravinthiran (Editor); Seni Seneviratne (Editor); Shash Trevett (Editor)
ISBN: 9781780376738
Publication Date: 2023
The Poem Behind the Poem by Frank Stewart (Editor)
ISBN: 1556592000
Publication Date: 2004
The Rapids of a Great River by Lakshmi Holmström; Subashree Krishnaswamy; K. Srilata (Editor)
ISBN: 0670082813
Publication Date: 2010

China

The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period by Herbert J. Batt (translator); Michel Hockx (writer of introduction)
ISBN: 0773599452
Publication Date: 2016
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry by Michael A. Fuller
ISBN: 9780674977013
Publication Date: 2018
Just a Song by Stephen Owen
ISBN: 9780674987128
Publication Date: 2019
The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry by J. P. Seaton (Editor)
ISBN: 9781570628627
Publication Date: 2006

India

Classical Telugu Poetry by Velcheru Narayana Rao (Translator); David Shulman (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520225985
Publication Date: 2002

Japan

How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. Carter
ISBN: 0231186827
Publication Date: 2019
Traditional Japanese Poetry by Steven D. Carter (Translator)
ISBN: 9780804715621
Publication Date: 1991
Modern Japanese Haiku: An Anthology by Makoto Ueda (Author)
ISBN: 1487583702
Publication Date: 2020
Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry by Takako Lento (Edited and Translated by)
ISBN: 9781939161093
Publication Date: 2019

Korea

The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Korean Poetry by Peter Lee (Editor)
ISBN: 9780231111126
Publication Date: 2003
The Book of Korean Poetry by Kevin O'Rourke
ISBN: 9781587295102
Publication Date: 2006