We begin in gladness : how poets progress : essays /
"The staggering thing about a life's work is it takes a lifetime to complete," Craig Morgan Teicher writes in these luminous essays. We Begin in Gladness considers how poets start out, how they learn to hear themselves and how some offer us that rare, glittering thing, lasting work. T...
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Minneapolis :
Graywolf Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: We begin in anticipation
- 1. Beginning and breakthroughs. Ars poetica : origin stories ; Sylvia Plath's surges ; Breakthroughs
- 2. Middles and mirrors. Mirror portraits ; Influences illuminated : francine J. harris ; A long career : W.S. Merwin
- 3. Ending and enduring. Rehearsals and rehashings ; Louise Glück's steady growth ; Endings.