American originality : essays on poetry

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Label

American originality : essays on poetry

Title remainder

essays on poetry

Statement of responsibility

Louise Glück

Creator

• Glück, Louise, 1943-

Author

• Glück, Louise, 1943-

Subject

• Originality in literature
• American poetry
• LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays
• 1900-1999
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Originality in literature
• American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• American poetry -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation
• Essays
• Essays

Genre

• Essays
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of "narcissism" and "genius" that are unique to the American literary climate. This includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career, such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, American Originality is a seminal critical achievement"--

Member of

• Essays., Selections

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

814/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS323.5

LC item number

.G59 2017

Literary form

non fiction