Proofs & theories : essays on poetry /

Proofs & Theories is a long-awaited first gathering of essays by one of this country's most brilliant poets. Like her poems, the prose of Ms. Gluck, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 for The Wild Iris, is compressed, fastidious, fierce, alert, and absolutely unconsoled. The forc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Glück, Louise, 1943- (Author), Glück, Louise, 1943-2023 (Author), Glück, Louise, 1943-, Glück, Louise, 1943-2023
Corporate Authors: Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania), Leonard L. Milberg Collection of American Poetry
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, [1994], ©1994
Hopewell, N.J. : The Ecco Press, c1994
Hopewell, N.J. : [1994]
[Hopewell, New Jersey] : [1994]
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
USA
Table of Contents:
  • Author's Note
  • Education of the Poet
  • On T. S. Eliot
  • The Idea of Courage
  • On George Oppen
  • Against Sincerity
  • On Hugh Seidman
  • The Forbidden
  • Obstinate Humanity
  • Disruption, Hesitation, Silence
  • Disinterestedness
  • The Best American Poetry 1993: Introduction
  • The Dreamer and the Watcher
  • On Stanley Kunitz
  • Invitation and Exclusion
  • Death and Absence
  • On Impoverishment
  • Education of the poet
  • On T.S. Eliot
  • The idea of courage
  • On George Oppen
  • Against sincerity
  • On Hugh Seidman
  • The forbidden
  • Obstinate humanity
  • Disruption, hesitation, silence
  • Disinterestedness
  • The best American poetry 1993 : introduction
  • The dreamer and the watcher
  • On Stanley Kunitz
  • Invitation and exclusion
  • Death and absence
  • On impoverishment
  • Author's Note
  • Education of the Poet
  • On T. S. Eliot
  • The Idea of Courage
  • On George Oppen
  • Against Sincerity
  • On Hugh Seidman
  • The Forbidden
  • Obstinate Humanity
  • Disruption, Hesitation, Silence
  • Disinterestedness
  • The Best American Poetry 1993: Introduction
  • The Dreamer and the Watcher
  • On Stanley Kunitz
  • Invitation and Exclusion
  • Death and Absence
  • On Impoverishment