About this title: 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 force of her thought is apparent everywhere in her writing and whether she is contemplating - skeptically - the critical currency of ideas like "courage" and "sincerity", T. S. Eliot's reduced reputation as a poet of impersonality, the loyalties of the objectivist George Oppen, or the ferocity in the headlong ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780880013697ISBN:0880013699
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Soft cover shows wear along edges. Book is in good condition. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 150 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: Reissue
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ECCO
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780880014427ISBN:0880014423
Description: New. Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, "Proofs and Theories" is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gluck, whose most recent book of poems, "The Wild Iris, " was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Gluck brings to her p... read more
"I've not read much of her poetry but I enjoyed reading her essays on poetry. Some quotes: "In a whole lifetime, years are spent waiting to be claimed by an idea. The only real exercise of will is negatives: we have toward what we write the power of veto." "The profundity of our ignorance concerning the merit of what we do creates despair; it also fuels hope." "The way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning.""
"L.G. is an intriguing stylist who writes from a long background of exposure to the best literature. This book is filled with quotable, pithy truisms and offers a point of view on writing that becomes unique when compared with the popularity of Creative non-fiction movement. Her style is clean and bare, though filled with parenthesis within parenthesis. I am enjoying the read and will come back to this book over and over again."
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