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American originality : essays on poetry / Louise Glück.

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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 instructive, American Originality is a seminal critical achievement"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374299552
  • ISBN: 0374299552
  • ISBN: 9780374537463
  • ISBN: 0374537461
  • Physical Description: 8 unnumbered pages, 189 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
American originality -- American narcissism -- Ersatz thought -- On Buddenbrooks -- Story tellers -- On realism -- The culture of healing -- Ten introductions : author's note -- In the surgical theatre / Dana Levin -- The clerk's tale / Spencer Reece -- The cuckoo / Peter Streckfus -- Crush / Richard Siken -- Green squall / Jay Hopler -- Frail-craft / Jessica Fisher -- The earth in the attic / Fady Joudah -- It is daylight / Arda Collins -- Juvenilia / Ken Chen -- Radial symmetry / Katherine Larson -- On revenge -- Estrangement -- Fear of happiness.
Subject: University of South Alabama
American poetry > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Originality in literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
American poetry.
Originality in literature.
Lyrik
Originalität
Genre: Essays.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.

Available copies

  • 4 of 4 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 1 current hold with 4 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 814.54 GLUCK (Text) 50686015666162 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library 814.54 GLUCK (Text) 50688010780915 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Parkland Community Library 814.54 GLU (Text) 34422007020957 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Hughes Library 814.54 GLU (Text) 32378004935153 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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