A Poetry Handbook

Picked this up as a reader of poetry, not a writer, and found it enriching. Some of it was familiar or intuitive but all of it was worth reading. Something to understand my response to poetry, which is all gelatinous feeling at the edge of the mind. Oh I knew the literary devices, but it starts to feel like taxidermy after a bit. Mary Oliver has something to say about how a poem breathes. I needed that.