Books on creative writing

[estepheia]

Has anyone on my flist ever read any books by Jack Bickham (like e.g. Scene & Structure)? He writes books on writing. The Amazon reviews are favorable, but I'm still undecided. I would like to buy a few more good book son writing so I can prepare my course, and I am allowed to order books for the seminar library, so now I'm looking for recommendations. Which books on creative writing can you recommend? I'm thinking not so much about stuff like Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamont, but more along the lines of Ansen Dibbell's Plot (which I'm so going to order for the library).
Please please please give me recs. Or anti-recs. Recs for books on screenplay-writing and books on poetry would not go amiss either. *makes puppy eyes*

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Re: Cheers.

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much for the link!!! Does it make me a miser if I don't want to pay postage from the US? I'm in Germany... :-)

In any case it's good to know that it's still available in the US. The university shouldn't really balk at having to pay postage, right? LOL.

Cheers.