To write better, read more-more often, more variety and the same book several times.
Here are some suggestions of books I like to recommend. If you have read some of these,
consider reading them again to see what their impact is and how it is accomplished.
More books to be added over time.
Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux
The Poet's Companion
Robin Behn and Chase Twichell
The Practice of Poetry
Mark Strand and Eavan Holand
The Making of a Poem
Denise Levertov
New & Selected Essays
Stephen Minot
Three Genres
Miller Williams
An Encyclopedia of Forms
Susan Aizenberg
The Extraordinary Tide new poetry by american women
Thomas H. Johnson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
edited by Jay Parini
The Columbia Ahthology of American Poetry
Modified by: LJL