American Originality: Essays on Poetry
Louise Glück
A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gl ck's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gl ck'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, Gl ck 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.Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Louise GlückPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublished: 04/18/2017ISBN: 9780374299552Pages: 208Weight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90dReview Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2016 pg. 58Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 12Library Journal 11/01/2016
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/18/2017
ISBN: 9780374299552
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2016 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118
Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2016
Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/18/2017
ISBN: 9780374299552
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2016 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118
Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2016
Book Title
American Originality: Essays on Poetry
ISBN
9780374299552
A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets
Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gl ck's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gl ck'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, Gl ck 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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/18/2017
ISBN: 9780374299552
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2016 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118
Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2016
A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets
Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gl ck's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gl ck'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, Gl ck 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.Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Louise Glück
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/18/2017
ISBN: 9780374299552
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2016 pg. 58
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/16/2017
Library Journal 03/15/2017 pg. 118
Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 12
Library Journal 11/01/2016