Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, and Robert Pinsky

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Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows Program 2004-2005 Selective Bibliography UC Irvine Libraries

Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Robert Pinsky

March 11, 2005

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John Novak Research Librarian for English & Comparative Literature, Classics and Critical Theory [email protected]

and

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Table of Contents

Frank Bidart ...... p. 1

Louise Glück...... p .4

Robert Pinsky ...... p. 7

Frank Bidart

Books & Poetry Collections of Bidart

Bidart, Frank. Music Like Dirt. Louisville, Ky.: Sarabande Books, 2002.

______. Desire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

______. In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-90, ed. Joe Brainard. 1st ed. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990.

______. "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky." (1984): 1 sound cassette (52 min.).

1 ______. The Sacrifice. New York: Random House, 1983.

______. The Book of the Body, ed. Joe Brainard. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977.

______. Golden State. New York: G. Braziller, 1973.

Works edited by Bidart

Lowell, Robert. Collected Poems, eds. Frank Bidart and David Gewanter. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.

Essays by Bidart

Bidart, Frank. "Pre-Existing Forms: We Fill Them and When We Fill Them We Change Them and Are Changed." Salmagundi 128 (Fall 2000): 109-122.

______, Wyatt Prunty, Richard Tillinghast, and James Kimbrell. "Panel: Lowell on the Page." Kenyon Review 22, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 234-248.

______. "'You Didn't Write, You Rewrote'." Kenyon Review 22, no. 1 (Winter 2000): 205-215.

______. "Like Hardy." Harvard Review 10 (Spring 1996): 115.

Interviews with & Biographies of Bidart

"Frank Bidart." Contemporary Authors Online (2003). Journal on-line. Available from http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&dcoll=gale&locID=ucirvine&c=1&ste=47&DT=Biography&n=10 &frmknp=1&docNum=H1000008486, 02/25/2005.

Halliday, Mark. "Frank Bidart - An Interview." Ploughshares 9, no. 1 (1983): 11-32.

Liu, Tim. "Punishing Love: Tim Liu Interviews Frank Bidart." Lambda Book Report: A Review of Contemporary Gay and Lesbian Literature 6, no. 9 (Spring 1998): 1, 6-7.

Rathmann, Andrew, and Danielle Allen. "An Interview with Frank Bidart." Chicago Review 47, no. 3 (Fall 2001): 21-42.

Critical Reviews of Bidart

Chiasson, Dan. "Presence: Frank Bidart." Raritan: A Quarterly Review 20, no. 4 (Spring 2001): 117-138.

Crenshaw, Brad. "The Sin of the Body: Frank Bidart's Human Bondage." Chicago Review 33, no. 4 (Winter 1983): 57-70.

Dyer, Joyce. "Frank Bidart's 'The Sacrifice'." Notes on Contemporary Literature 11, no. 3 (May 1981): 8-10.

Gray, Jeffrey. "'Necessary Thought': Frank Bidart and the Postconfessional." Contemporary Literature 34, no. 4 (Winter 1993): 714-739.

Hammer, Langdon. "Frank Bidart and the Tone of Contemporary Poetry." Southwest Review 87, no. 1 (2002): 75-89.

Heaney, Seamus. "Frank Bidart: A Salute." Agni 36 (1992): 270-271.

Nadel, Alan. "Wellesley Poets: The Works of Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart." New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 4, no. 2 (Winter 1981): 311-325.

Olsen, William. "Poetry and Emotion: With a Review of Frank Bidart's Desire." Chicago Review 44, no. 3 (1998): 148-166.

Pinsky, Robert. "Two Examples of Poetic Discursiveness." Chicago Review 27, no. 1 (1975): 133-141.

Quinn, Justin. "Frank Bidart and the Fate of the Lyric." PN Review 27, no. 6 (Summer 2001): 40-42.

3 Louise Glück

Books & Poetry Collections by Glück

Glück, Louise. October: Poetry. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2004.

______. The Seven Ages. New York: Ecco Press, 2001.

______. Vita Nova. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1999.

______. Meadowlands. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1996.

______. The First Four Books of Poems. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1995.

______. Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1994.

______. The Wild Iris. New York: Ecco Press, 1992.

______. Ararat. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

______. The Triumph of Achilles. New York: Ecco Press, 1985.

______. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco Press, 1980.

______. The House on Marshland. New York: Ecco Press, 1975

______. Firstborn. New York: New American Library, 1968.

Essays by Glück

Glück, Louise. "American Narcissism." PN Review 23, no. 6 (July-Aug 1997): 10-13.

______. "Story Tellers." PN Review 24, no. 1 (Sept-Oct 1997): 13-16.

______. "Obstinate Humanity." In Poets Teaching Poets: Self and the World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (1996): 23-27.

______. "Two Essays: Against Sincerity; Disruption, Hesitation, Silence." The American Poetry Review 22, no. 5 (Sept-Oct 1993): 27-32.

______. "Voices." The American Poetry Review 22, no. 3 (May-June 1993): 19.

______. "On Stanley Kunitz." The American Poetry Review 14, no. 5 (Sept.-Oct. 1985): 27-28.

______. "Whole and Not Final: The Art of George Oppen." Ironwood 13, no. 2 (26) (Fall 1985): 237-239.

Ryan, Michael, Stephen Berg, Louise Glück, Donald Hall, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Lisel Mueller, Carol Muske, Robert Pinsky, and Theodore Weiss. "Symposium of Poets on T. S. Eliot." The Southern Review 21, no. 4 (Autumn 1985): 1138-1163.

Interviews & Biographies

"Louise (Elisabeth) Glück." Contemporary Authors Online Journal on-line. Available from http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&dcoll=gale&locID=ucirvine&c=4&s te=47&DT=Biography&n=10&frmknp=1&docNum=H1000037275, 02/26/2005.

Cabalieri, Grace. “The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress--Favorite Poets. Louise Glück (sound recording), Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1999.

Phillips, Brian. "A Conversation with Louise Glück." Harvard Advocate, http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~advocate/ (Summer 1999).

Glück, Louise. Louise Glück. Produced and directed by Lewis MacAdams and John Dorr. Lannan Foundation, 1989. Videocassette.

Critical Reviews of Glück

Cates, Isaac. "Louise Glück: Interstices and Silences." Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics 5, no. 3 (Fall 2003): 462-477.

Gordon, Maggie. "A Woman Writing about Nature: Louise Glück and 'the Absence of Intention'." In Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press (2002): 221-231.

Hoey, Allen. "Between Truth and Meaning." American Poetry Review 26, no. 1 (1997): 37-46.

Matson, Suzanne. "Without Relation: Family and Freedom in the Poetry of Louise Glück." Mid-American Review 14, no. 2 (1994): 88-109.

Miklitsch, Robert. "Assembling a Landscape: The Poetry of Louise Glück." In Twayne Companion to Contemporary Literature in English, I: Ammons-Lurie; II: Macleod- Williams. New York, NY: Twayne, Thomson Gale (2002) I: 347-59.

5 Murnaghan, Sheila, and Deborah H. Roberts. "Penelope's Song: The Lyric Odysseys of Linda Pastan and Louise Glück." Classical and Modern Literature: A Quarterly 22, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 1-33.

Sadoff, Ira. "Louise Glück and the Last Stage of Romanticism." New England Review: Middlebury Series 22, no. 4 (Fall 2001): 81-92.

Savinel, Christine. "Louise Glück: Le Poeme a l'epreuve." Revue Francaise d'Etudes Americaines 67 (Jan 1996): 58-69.

Shetley, Vernon. "Glück, Louise: Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry." Partisan Review 64, no. 4 (1997): 675-6.

Townsend, Ann. "The Problem of Sincerity: The Lyric Plain Style of George Herbert and Louise Glück." Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review 46, no. 4 (Winter 1996): 43-61.

6 Robert Pinsky

Works of Poetry by Pinsky

Pinsky, Robert. Jersey Rain. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

______. The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems, 1966-1996. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.

______. The Want Bone. New York: Ecco Press, 1990.

______. History of My Heart. New York: Ecco Press, 1984.

______. An Explanation of America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

______. Sadness and Happiness: Poems. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975.

Other Collections of Writing

Pinsky, Robert. Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

______. The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

______. Poetry and the World. New York: Ecco Press, 1988.

______. The Situation of Poetry: Contemporary Poetry and its Traditions. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.

______. Landor's Poetry. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.

Essays by Pinsky

Heaney, Seamus, Robert Pinsky, and Thomas Parkinson. "On Current Unstated Assumptions about Poetry." Critical Inquiry 7, no. 4 (Summer 1981): 645-651.

Pinsky, Robert. "Poetry and American Memory." Atlantic Monthly 284, no. 4 (Fall 1999): 60-64, 66-68, 70.

______. "American Poetry in American Life." The American Poetry Review 25, no. 2 (March 1996): 19-23.

7 ______. "Character and Art." Harvard Review 10 (Spring 1996): 112-114.

______. "Nerds, Technocrats, and Enlightened Spirits." Doubletake 2, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 41-46.

______. "The Saving Vulgarity of Poetry." Green Mountains Review 9, no. 2 (Fall 1996): 110-113.

______. "The Amatuer." The Wallace Stevens Journal: A Publication of the Wallace Stevens Society 17, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 31-34.

______. "American Poetry and American Life: Freneau, Whitman, Williams." Shenandoah: The Washington & Lee University Review 37, no. 1 (1987): 3-26.

______. "Responsibilities of the Poet." Critical Inquiry 13, no. 3 (Spring 1987): 421- 433.

______. "George Oppen: 'The Undertaking'." Ironwood 13, no. 2 (Fall 1985): 179-185.

______. "The Poetry of J. V. Cunningham." Chicago Review 35, no. 1 (1985): 4-14.

______. "'Us Too He Harrows'." Parnassus: Poetry in Review 6, no. 2 (1978): 185- 192.

______. "The Conquered Kings of Robert Lowell." Salmagundi 37 (1977): 102-105.

______. "Description and the Virtuous Use of Words." Parnassus: Poetry in Review 3, no. 2 (1975): 134-146.

______. "Two Examples of Poetic Discursiveness." Chicago Review 27, no. 1 (1975): 133-141.

______. "Hardy, Ransom, Berryman: A 'Curious Air'." Agenda 10, no. 2 (1972): 89- 99.

______, and Czeslaw Milosz. "Czeslaw Milosz." Partisan Review 66, no. 1 (1999): 145-152.

Translations

Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation. Trans. Robert Pinsky and Nicole Pinsky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

Milosz, Czeslaw. The Separate Notebooks. Trans. Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, and Renata Gorczynski. New York: Ecco Press, 1984.

Works edited by Pinsky

Pinsky, Robert, trans. The Handbook of Heartbreak: 101 Poems of Lost Love and Sorrow. New York: Rob Weisbach Books, 1998.

Pinsky, Robert and Maggie Dietz, eds. Americans' Favorite Poems: The Favorite Poem Project Anthology. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Williams, William Carlos. Selected Poems, ed. Robert Pinsky. New York: Library of America, 2004.

Interviews with and Biographies of Pinsky

"America's Wordsmith." 04/02/97. Available from http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/april97/poet_4-2.html. 02/28/05. A PBS interview with Robert Pinsky and Elizabeth Farnsworth.

Callison, Kay Bonetti. "Image of Desire: An Interview with Robert Pinsky." New Letters 64, no. 4 (1998): 82-94.

Mazur, Michael, and Robert Pinsky. "A Conversation about The Inferno of Dante." Harvard Review 8 (Spring 1995): 60-71.

Pinsky, Robert and Michael Mazur. Image and Text: A Dialogue with Robert Pinsky and Michael Mazur. Berkeley: Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, 1994.

"Robert Pinsky." Contemporary Authors Online (2003). Journal on-line. Available from http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=ucirvine&srch tp=athr&ca=1&c=1&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=70564&n=10&docNum=H1000078486 &ST=pinsky%2C+robert&bConts=16047, 02/28/05.

"Robert Pinsky." Literature Resource Center Journal on-line. Available from http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/LitRC?vrsn=3&OP=contains&locID=ucirvine&srch tp=athr&ca=1&c=2&ste=6&tab=1&tbst=arp&ai=70564&n=10&docNum=H1109600000 &ST=pinsky%2C+robert&bConts=16047, 02/28/05.

Pinsky, Robert and others. "Thinking in Public: A Forum." American Literary History 10, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 1-83. Open forum conversation with Pinsky and others.

Sorkin, Adam J. "An Interview with Robert Pinsky." Contemporary Literature 25, no. 1 (Spring 1984): 1-14.

9 Thomas, Harry. "A Conversation with Robert Pinsky." TriQuarterly 92 (Winter 1994): 21-37.

Critical Review and Essays on Pinsky

Bowditch, Lowell. "The Horatian Poetics of Ezra Pound and Robert Pinsky." Classical World 89, no. 6 (Summer 1996): 451-477.

Campbell, P. Michael. "Interactive Fiction and Narrative Theory: Towards an Anti- Theory." New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 10, no. 1 (Fall 1987): 76-84.

Cavalieri, Grace. "Robert Pinsky: The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress." Pembroke Magazine 31 (1999): 231-238.

Cavalieri, Grace. "Robert Pinsky: The Poet Laureate and His Poems." Pembroke Magazine 31 (1999): 229-230.

Davis, Ellen. "'Troubadours and Radios': Terza Rima and the Blues." Harvard Review 8 (Spring 1995): 78-79.

Erwin, Timothy. "The Extraordinary Language of Robert Pinsky." Halcyon: A Journal of the Humanities 16 (1994): 123-144.

Esolen, Anthony M. "Pinsky's Dante." Providence: Studies in Western Civilization 3, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 376-386.

Glück, Louise. "Story Tellers." American Poetry Review 26, no. 4 (Summer 1997): 9-12.

Hanson, Kristin. "Formal Variation in the Rhymes of Robert Pinsky's The Inferno of Dante." Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association 12, no. 4 (Nov 2003): 309-337.

Hoagland, Tony. "Three Tenors: Glück, Hass, Pinsky, and the Development of Talent." American Poetry Review 32, no. 4 (Summer 2003): 37-42.

Holden, Jonathan. "The Attack on the Image: A Critique of Pinsky's The Situation of Poetry." Field: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 25 (Fall 1981): 67-82.

Lefcowitz, Barbara F. "Ambivalence and the Bourgeois Poet: Robert Pinsky's Essay on Psychiatrists." Contemporary Poetry: A Journal of Criticism 4, no. 2 (1981): 54-59.

Longenbach, James. "Robert Pinsky and the Language of Our Time." Salmagundi 103 (Summer 1994): 157-177.

10 Maxwell, Mary. "Exhilaration and Derangement." Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics 6, no. 2 (Spring 2004): 306-321.

McCorkle, James. "Contemporary Poetics and History: Pinsky, Klepfisz and Rothenberg." The Kenyon Review 14, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 171-188.

Molesworth, Charles. "Proving Irony by Compassion: The Poetry of Robert Pinsky." The Hollins Critic 21, no. 5 (Dec 1984): 1-18.

Nadel, Alan. "Wellesley Poets: The Works of Robert Pinsky and Frank Bidart." New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 4, no. 2 (Winter 1981): 311-325.

Parini, Jay. "Explaining America: The Poetry of Robert Pinsky." Chicago Review 33, no. 1 (Summer 1981): 16-26.

Quinn, Justin. "Robert Pinsky and the Ends of America." PN Review 26, no. 3 (Winter 2000): 45-49.

Sacks, Peter. "'Also This, Also That': Robert Pinsky's Poetics of Inclusion." Agni 36 (1992): 272-280.

Sleigh, Tom. "Robert Pinsky." Bomb 68 (Summer 1999): 52-56.

Sylge, Caroline. "Robert Pinsky at the Dorset Square Hotel." PN Review 25, no. 1 (Sept 1998): 27-30.

Whedon, Tony. "Public Pinsky." Northwest Review 38, no. 3 (2000): 115-134.

Whedon, Tony. "The Transfiguration of Pinsky." Agni 49 (1999): 207-218.