A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets
Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Fir stborn, 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. (那颗晴空 摘自美国亚马逊)
0 有用 十块钱的可乐 2022-06-14 23:15:21
过去的已经过去,现在的也正在过去,未来的以后也会过去。
0 有用 ice 2021-03-17 18:00:49
Nothing in that past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about./ Insofar as our fearful, compulsive, rigid nature allow, I think we should welcome what follows... Nothing in that past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about./ Insofar as our fearful, compulsive, rigid nature allow, I think we should welcome what follows. (展开)
0 有用 信然 2021-02-06 18:20:27
“Life in the head became, for the book's duration, more focused, rich with alien detail. Whereas poetry was the way you thought when you were reading or being, independent of the finite freckled self.... “Life in the head became, for the book's duration, more focused, rich with alien detail. Whereas poetry was the way you thought when you were reading or being, independent of the finite freckled self. But that is another subject.”——As a poet, her writing is⋯of course poetic, and also forceful. (展开)
0 有用 Dropthepoem 2022-07-30 20:50:15
对于美国诗歌,社会,文化尖锐的点评。写得真好,论文写得充满诗意,但阅读阻力也蛮大的
0 有用 Dropthepoem 2022-07-30 20:50:15
对于美国诗歌,社会,文化尖锐的点评。写得真好,论文写得充满诗意,但阅读阻力也蛮大的
0 有用 十块钱的可乐 2022-06-14 23:15:21
过去的已经过去,现在的也正在过去,未来的以后也会过去。
0 有用 ice 2021-03-17 18:00:49
Nothing in that past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about./ Insofar as our fearful, compulsive, rigid nature allow, I think we should welcome what follows... Nothing in that past can be changed or restored. But the present can change the way it is thought about./ Insofar as our fearful, compulsive, rigid nature allow, I think we should welcome what follows. (展开)
0 有用 信然 2021-02-06 18:20:27
“Life in the head became, for the book's duration, more focused, rich with alien detail. Whereas poetry was the way you thought when you were reading or being, independent of the finite freckled self.... “Life in the head became, for the book's duration, more focused, rich with alien detail. Whereas poetry was the way you thought when you were reading or being, independent of the finite freckled self. But that is another subject.”——As a poet, her writing is⋯of course poetic, and also forceful. (展开)