Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gluck, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Gluck brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiven[...]
Articulates the familial relationships between man, woman, and child, exploring Circe and Penelope and emotional psychodramas in poetry that is both chastened and spiritual[...]