{"product_id":"american-originality-essays-on-poetry-9780374537463","title":"American Originality: Essays on Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive decades after her debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eFirstborn\u003c\/i\u003e, Louise Gl ck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality \u003c\/i\u003eis Gl ck's second book of essays--her first, \u003ci\u003eProofs and Theories\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 1993 PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gl ck's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e From its opening pages, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality\u003c\/i\u003e 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, Gl ck 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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal critical achievement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374537463\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.60d","brand":"Louise Gluck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636672983196,"sku":"9780374537463","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5cdb9845-ab79-4872-9601-f317d3e83d3f.jpg?v=1603842605","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/american-originality-essays-on-poetry-9780374537463","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}