WE BEGIN IN GLADNESS

One of our most perceptive critics on the ways that poets develop poems, a career, and a lifeThe staggering thing about a lifes wo rk is it takes a lifetime to complete, Craig Morgan Teicher writes in these luminous essays. We Begin in Gladness considers how poe ts start out, how they learn to hear themselves, and how some offer us that rare, glittering thing: lasting work. Teicher traces the poetic development of the works of Sylvia Plath, John Ashbery, Louise Glück, and Francine J. Harris, among others, to illuminate th e paths the...[Read more]