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American Originality: Essays on Poetry (International Edition)
Louise Glück
Synopsis "American Originality: Essays on Poetry (International Edition)"
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.
(1943-2023) Louise Elisabeth Glück fue una poeta estadounidense. Nacida en Nueva York en 1943, publicó trece volúmenes de poesía, dos colecciones de ensayos y una breve pieza en prosa. En 2020 fue galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura "por su inconfundible voz poética, que hace que la existencia individual sea universal con una belleza estricta". Por sus obras, también recibió el Premio Pulitzer, el Premio Bollingen, el Premio Nacional del Libro y la Medalla de Oro a la Poesía de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras, entre otros. Enseñó en las universidades de Yale y Stanford.