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On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry
Sandra M. GilbertThe highly esteemed literary critic and poet Sandra M. Gilbert is best known for her feminist literary collaborations with Susan Gubar, with whom she coauthored The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, as well as the three-volume No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century.
The essays assembled in On Burning Ground display Gilbert's astonishing range and explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. Among the pieces gathered here are essays on D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Louise Glück, as well as reviews and previously unpublished articles.
Sandra M. Gilbert is Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, and Soros Foundation fellowships and is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999 and, most recently, Belongings.
Praise for Sandra M.Gilbert
"Sandra Gilbert's poems are beautifully situated at the intersection of craft and feeling. Belongings is a stellar collection by a virtuoso with heart."
---Billy Collins
". . . brilliantly combines literary and cultural criticism with the intimacy of memoir."
---Joyce Carol Oates
"An enduring contribution to the literature of grief."
---New York Times Book Review
Poets on Poetry collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
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Cover
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Half Title
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Title
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Copyright
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Dedication
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Contents
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Regrets, Rewards, and What Ifs . . .Musing on Hypotheticals
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I. Confessional Poetics: Meditations and Memories
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Why Do We Write: Some Thoughts on the Coin That Sings
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Of the Living Dead: The Poet-Critic in an Age of Theory
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Confessional Mythology
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A Ruthlessness of One’s Own
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Glass Joints: A Meditation on the Line
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Mysteries of the Hyphen: Poetry, Pasta, and Identity Politics
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Westward, Off the Map
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Staging Grief: Two Elegies
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All About My Mother (and Me)
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II. Figures in a Landscape: Readings, Profiles, and Reviews
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The Rediscovery of H. D.
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Mephistopheles in Maine: Rereading Lowell’s “Skunk Hour”
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Looking for Mr. Death: On Sexton’s The Death Notebooks
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Of Metaphors and Morals: On Three Visions of Sylvia Plath
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Extraordinary Words: On Ruth Stone’s Ordinary Words
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The Lamentations of the New: On Louise Glück’s Vita Nova
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The Last Wilderness of the Wild Old: On Marie Ponsot’s The Bird Catcher and Rajzel Zychlinsky’s God Hid His Face
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III. On Burning Ground: Review-Essays
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On the Edge of the Estate
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How These New Homegirls Sing
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The Worst of the Best; or, “Pessoa, Schmessoa”
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Where the Boys Are
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Common Wealth
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Acknowledgments
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Back Cover
- 978-0-472-05056-7 (paper)
- 978-0-472-22019-9 (ebook)