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.
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On burning ground : thirty years of thinking about poetry by Sandra M. Gilbert. ISBN 9780472050567. Published by University of Michigan Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
