American Originality: Essays on Poetry John Fennelly performance artist and screenwriter

performance artist and screenwriter

In hotel rooms and coffee shops

solitary and silent

the executed Mary Queen of Scots

" - The Bookseller

American Originality: Essays on Poetry John Fennelly performance artist and screenwriterThe probing essays collected in American Originality scrutinise the terms we use to think about recent American poetry, its antecedents (not just Whitman and Dickinson but Ovid, Rilke, Thomas Mann, Keats) and its future, questioning how we distinguish between work that is unique and work that is original, carefully delineating the allure of both 'shared traditions' and 'the cult of illogic'. Attentive always to risk and danger, Louise Glck illuminates