To Mary Oliver's "Handbook," add her "Rules for theDance," 1998.
John Frederick Nims' "Western Wind, an Introduction to Poetry," Third Edition, 1992 is a standard. I t includes an anthology of exemplary poems that runs over 200 pages.
"The Making of a Poem" (a Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms) by Mark Strand and Eavan Boland is good for the study of received forms...plenty of examples.
The title of Paul Fussell's MAJOR prosody slips my mind (my copy's out), but it's, perhaps, the most demanding prosody I've read. About a dozen poets over the past 500 years pass achieve his standards.
Bob
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