The poetry of Louise Glück a thematic introduction

Morris, Daniel 1962- (Author).

Summary: "Explores Glück'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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780826265562 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0826265561 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0826216935 (hard cover : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780826216939 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 274 p.)
Publisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"Poems are autobiography" : toward imagining a postconfessionalist's biography -- Dedicated to hunger : a poetics of desire -- Visions and revisions : commentary and the question of being a contemporary Jewish poet -- The wound in the word : trauma theory and the question of witness -- Challenging trauma theory : witnessing divine mystery -- The House on Marshland : second nature writing and the entrance into the symbolic -- Should I say it with flowers? : Ararat and the work of mourning through nature poetry -- Errand in the spiritual wilderness : The Wild Iris as contemporary prayer sequence -- Mythic fragment : sequence, commentary, and the composition of the lyric self through The Odyssey in Meadowlands.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
System Details Note:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.