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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 In

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Author

Louise Glück

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374299552

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

3.97 / 5 (31 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14