A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essays - her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection.