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Sandra Gilbert - On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry (Poets on Poetry) - 9780472050567 - V9780472050567
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On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry (Poets on Poetry)

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Description for On Burning Ground: Thirty Years of Thinking About Poetry (Poets on Poetry) Paperback. A collection of essays that explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. Series: Poets on Poetry. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.

The 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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Poets on Poetry
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472050567
SKU
V9780472050567
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Sandra Gilbert
Sandra Gilbert is Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She has collaborated with Susan Gubar on the now-canonical feminist study The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination and the three-volume No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century. Gilbert is the author of seven ... Read more

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