{"product_id":"the-poetry-of-louise-glck-a-thematic-introduction-9780826222381","title":"The Poetry of Louise Gl?ck: A Thematic Introduction","description":"A dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years, Louise Glück has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 and was named U.S. poet laureate for 2003-2004. In a full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales. Morris treats Glück's persistent themes--desire, hunger, trauma, survival--through close reading of her major book-length sequences from the 1990s: \u003ci\u003eArarat, Meadowlands, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e. An additional chapter devoted to \u003ci\u003eThe House on Marshland\u003c\/i\u003e (1975) shows how its revision of Romanticism and nature poetry anticipated these later works. Seeing Glück's poems as complex analyses of the authorial self via sustained central metaphors, Morris reads her poetry against a narrative pattern that shifts from the tones of anger, despair, and resentment found in her early \u003ci\u003eFirstborn\u003c\/i\u003e to the resignation of \u003ci\u003eArarat\u003c\/i\u003e--and proceeds in her latest volumes, including\u003ci\u003e Vita Nova \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e, toward an ambivalent embrace of embodied life.By showing how Glück's poems may be read as a form of commentary on the meanings of great literature and myth, Morris emphasizes her irreverent attitude toward the canons through which she both expresses herself and deflects her autobiographical impulse. By discussing her sense of self, of Judaism, and of the poetic tradition, he explores her position as a mystic poet with an ambivalent relationship to religious discourse verging on Gnosticism, with tendencies toward the ancient rabbinic midrash tradition of reading scripture. He particularly shows how her creative reading of past poets expresses her vision of Judaism as a way of thinking about canonical texts. \u003ci\u003eThe Poetry of Louise Glück\u003c\/i\u003e is a quintessential study of how poems may be read as a form of commentary on the meanings of great literature and myth. It clearly demonstrates that, through this lens of commentary, one can grasp more firmly the very idea of poetry itself that Glück has spent her career both defining and extending.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Morris is Professor of English at Purdue University. He is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Writings of William Carlos Williams: Publicity for the Self\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Missouri Press), \u003ci\u003eRemarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBryce Passage\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50922750181650,"sku":"9780826222381","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b44be6f8-e7c1-47a1-8d73-101863143437.jpg?v=1738938920","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poetry-of-louise-glck-a-thematic-introduction-9780826222381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}