Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. Light offsetting to the front free end pages. The author's first collection of essays exploring poets and postmodernism. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. The author's third collection of poetry. Louise Gluck's poetry has dazzled critics for years and this year she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. The judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Signed by the author on the title page. Seller Inventory # 28593

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Title: Proofs and Theories. Essays on Poetry

Publisher: Ecco, New York

Publication Date: 1990

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: poetry

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: First edition, first printing.

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