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On burning ground : thirty years of thinking about poetry
- Title
- On burning ground : thirty years of thinking about poetry / Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Author
- Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 180 p.; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Poets on poetry
- Subject
- Contents
- Why do we write: some thoughts on the coin that sings -- Of the living dead: the poet-critic in an age of theory -- Confessional mythology -- A ruthlessness of one's own -- Glass joints: a meditation on the line -- Mysteries of the hyphen: poetry, pasta, and identity politics -- Westward, off the map -- Staging grief: two elegies -- All about my mother (and me) -- The rediscovery of H.D -- Mephistopheles in Maine: rereading Lowell's "Skunk hour" -- Looking for Mr. Death: on Sexton's The death notebooks -- Of metaphors and morals: on three visions of Sylvia Plath -- Extraordinary words: on Ruth Stone's Ordinary words -- The lamentations of the new: on Louise Glück's Vita nova -- The last wilderness of the wild old: on Marie Ponsot's The bird catcher and Rajzel Zychlinsky's God hid his face -- On the edge of the estate -- How these new homegirls sing -- The worst of the best; or, "Pessoa, Schmessoa" -- Where the boys are -- Common wealth.
- Call Number
- JFD 09-611
- ISBN
- 9780472070565 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 0472070568 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 9780472050567 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 0472050567 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2008047861
- OCLC
- 262883123
- Author
- Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Title
- On burning ground : thirty years of thinking about poetry / Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Imprint
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.
- Series
- Poets on poetry
- Research Call Number
- JFD 09-611