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100 1 $aGlück, Louise,$d1943-.
245 10$aAmerican originality :$bessays on poetry /$cLouise Glück.
246 30$aEssays on poetry.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar Straus and Giroux,$c2017.
300 $a189 pages ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $a"A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusinglyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined towrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of "narcissism" and "genius" that are unique to the American literary climate. This includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career, such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, American Originality is a seminal critical achievement"-- Provided by publisher.
650 0$aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0$aOriginality in literature.
650 0$aEssays.