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AMERICAN ORIGINALITY ESSAYS ON POETRY - LOUISE ...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück 
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 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.

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