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Louise Gluck, as well as reviews and previously unpublished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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