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020 _a9780374299552 (hardback)
020 _z9781466875685 (ebook)
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100 1 _aGluÌck, Louise,
_d1943-
240 1 0 _aEssays.
_kSelections
245 1 0 _aAmerican originality :
_bessays on poetry /
_cLouise GluÌck.
250 _aFirst edition.
263 _a1111
264 1 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2017.
300 _apages cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise GluÌck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is GluÌck's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. GluÌck'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, GluÌck 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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aAmerican poetry
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aOriginality in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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