Two other suggestions--
All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing by Timothy Steele. (A comprehensive and interesting guide to meter by one of the most accomplished living metrical poets. Or skip the guide, and simply read his poetry collections Sapphics Against Anger and The Color Wheel.)
The Poet's Companion by Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux. (A fun beginning poetry guide, more geared to free verse, by two award-winning poets. Or again, skip the guide, and read Addonizio's free verse collection Tell Me. For my money, Tell Me, with its intense, stripped-bare honesty and its dramatic craft, has more memorable poems--including "Glass," "At Moss Beach," "Prayer," "For Desire" and "Theodicy"--than any other book of free verse. Eliot and Jeffers waded gallantly into depression, too. But they pretty much got mired and then nobly gritted their teeth as they sank. Kim bursts out the other side, still very much alive!)
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