The poetry of Louise Gluck : a thematic introduction / Daniel Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Daniel, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gluck, Louise, 1943---Criticism and interpretation.

Gluck, Louise.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Explores Gluck's utilization of masks of characters from history, the Bible, and fairy tales, discussing the persistent themes and transitional tone of her poetry through close reading of her early work, Firstborn; through the book-length sequences Ararat, Meadowlands, and The Wild Iris; to her latest, including Vita Nova and Averno"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I. Thematic Keywords

Chapter One. "Poems Are Autobiography": Toward Imagining a Postconfessionalist's Biography

Chapter Two. Dedicated to Hunger: A Poetics of Desire

Chapter Three. Visions and Revisions: Commentary and the Question of Being a Contemporary Jewish Poet

Chapter Four. The Wound in the Word: Trauma Theory and the Question of Witness

Chapter Five. Challenging Trauma Theory: Witnessing Divine Mystery

Part II. A Poet of the Book

Chapter Six. The House on Marshland: Second Nature Writing and the Entrance into the Symbolic

Chapter Seven. Should I Say It with Flowers?: Ararat and the Work of Mourning through Nature Poetry

Chapter Eight. Errand in the Spiritual Wilderness: The Wild Iris as Contemporary Prayer Sequence

Chapter Nine. Mythic Fragment: Sequence, Commentary, and the Composition of the Lyric Self through The Odyssey in Meadowlands

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index.

ISBN:

9780826265562

0826265561

OCLC:

290591375