American originality : essays on poetry /

"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, America...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Glück, Louise, 1943- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	American poetry > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation. Originality in literature. LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays. American poetry. 1900-1999 Essays. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

One
American originality
American narcissism
Ersatz thought
On Buddenbrooks
Two
Story tellers
On realism
The culture of healing
Three: 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
Four
On revenge
Estrangement
Fear of happiness.