| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780880014427 | | Publisher: Ecco Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30220091 | | Item#: RM79F4 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.25H x 6L x 0.5T |
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| | | 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 prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness and insight that distinguish her poetry. The force of her thought is evident everywhere in these essays, from her explorations of other poets'' work to her skeptical contemplation of current literary critical notions such as "sincerety" and "courage." Here also are Gluck''s revealing reflections on her own education and life as a poet, and a tribute to her teacher and mentor, Stanley Kunitz. "Proofs and Theories" is the testament of a major poet.
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This collection of essays won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction.
| PraisePublishers Weekly
As with her poetry, Gluck's prose is fine and pared but visionary; her intelligence is precise and earnest....Here and elsewhere, Gluck's brevity, clarity, and resolute independence are impressive."Partisan Review
"...[B]rief, concentrated, and intense....Glück's vision of the poet's vocation is far from comforting, but her faith in the value of poetry's hard discipline offers its own inspiration." - Vernon Shetley Fall 1997 |
| Author Bio| Louise Gluck | | The poet Louise Gluck won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection THE WILD IRIS. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Foundation grant and a Guggenheim fellowship, and has spent many years teaching at Williams College. |
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