WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of Essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and 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.
Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, American Originality is a seminal critical achievement..
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.
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.
From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary Poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways.
Gl ck\'s moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection.
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.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of Essays from Louise Gl ck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and 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
