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Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry

ISBN13: 9780880013697
ISBN10: 0880013699
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These essays share the same deftness, brevity, and perception that make Louise Gluck's poems so remarkable. Ranging from near-memoir to academic writing on past poets to the challenges contemporary poetry face, Proofs and Theories is a wonderful little jargon-free book full of intellectual and poetic insight from one of my favorite poets.
Recommended by Crystal, Powell's City of Books

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This first collection of essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gluck (The Wild Iris, 1993) was well worth the wait. Passionate, penetrating, and thankfully unpostmodern, she treats poets including T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Stanley Kunitz, and subjects including courage, sincerity, and disinterestedness.
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ISBN:: 9780880013697
Subtitle:: Essays on Poetry
Publisher:: Ecco Press
Location:: Hopewell, N.J. :
Subject:: General
Subject:: American
Subject:: Poetry
Subject:: Poetics
Edition Number:: 1st ed.
Series Volume:: no. 9
Publication Date:: c1994
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Y
Pages:: 134 p.
Dimensions:: 9.27x6.35x.70 in. .93 lbs.

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