Background
Gregerson, Linda Karen was born on August 5, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Olaf Thorbjorn and Karen Mildred Gregerson.
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In a wide-ranging and fiercely intelligent series of readings, Linda Gregerson presents an eloquent overview of the contemporary American lyric. This lyric is distinguished, she argues, not only by its unprecedented variety and abundance, but by its persistent and supple engagement with form. In detailed examinations of work by John Ashbery, Mark Strand, Louis Glück, James Schuyler, Muriel Rukeyser, C. K. Williams, Rita Dove, Philip Levine, Heather McHugh, William Meredith, John Hollander, and a host of other recent and contemporary poets, Gregerson documents the depth and richness of American lyric production at the turn of the twenty-first century. In its scruples and reservations as in its discriminating explanations, Negative Capability unearths the contours of a distinctive American poetic tradition. This book is a rich symbiosis of critical and poetic intelligence. It is also a work of passionate advocacy. The book will appeal to those interested in the current state of American poetry: practicing poets, readers and students of literature and literary criticism, professional critics. Linda Gregerson is an acclaimed poet and literary critic. She is author of The Reformation of the Subject: Spenser, Milton, and the English Protestant Epic and two poetry collections, The Woman Who Died in Her Sleep and Fire in the Conservatory. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan, where she heads the Visiting Writers Program.
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A stirring, brilliantly crafted collection, Linda Gregerson's third volume of poetry examines mortality in all its beauty and horror. Fluently rendered in Gregerson's distinctive three-line stanzas, these poems explore subjects from autism to genealogy to ecology. Their occasions are diverse -- a barn fire, a wounded deer, a child's determined struggle with a bicycle -- but their instinct is always to wrest from the impure world a vernacular of praise.
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(Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the sam...)
Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same distrust and aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of shaping and thus waylaying the human imagination; and yet the Reformation also produced the defining monuments of English epic. In an extended analysis, both lucid and theoretically sophisticated, Linda Gregerson traces the contradictory cultural roots of The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost, illuminating the ideological, political, and gender conflicts that Spenser and Milton confronted as they transformed the epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political subject.
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Gregerson, Linda Karen was born on August 5, 1950 in Elgin, Illinois, United States. Daughter of Olaf Thorbjorn and Karen Mildred Gregerson.
Bachelor, Oberlin College, 1971. Master of Arts, Northwestern University, 1972. Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa, 1977.
Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1987.
Actress Kraken Theater Company, 1972—1975. Assistant poetry editor The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1982—1986. Staff editor Atlantic Monthly, Boston, 1982—1987.
Assistant professor Department English University Michigan, 1987—1991, William Wilhartz assistant professor English, 1991—1994, associate professor Department English, 1994—2001, professor Department English, 2001—2003, Frederick G. L. Huetwell professor, professor English, since 2003, director Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing, 1997—2000. Member usage panel American Heritage Dictionary, since 1987. Visiting assistant professor creative writing program Department English Boston University, 1985—1986.
Instructor literature Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985—1987. Assistant editor Michigan Quarterly Review, since 1987. Editorial consultant Cambridge University Press, since 1989, Harvard University Press, since 1989, Oxford University Press, since 1989, Wesleyan University Press, since 1989, Indiana University Press, since 1989, Bedford Books, since 1989, University Michigan Press, since 1989, Wayne State University Press, since 1989.
(Reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the sam...)
( In a wide-ranging and fiercely intelligent series of re...)
( A stirring, brilliantly crafted collection, Linda Grege...)
("The river is largely implicit here," writes Linda Greger...)
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Member Modern Language Association (member Executive Committee, Division Literature of Renaissance), Shakespeare Association American, Renaissance Society American, Spenser Society American (Isabel MacCaffrey award 1992), Milton Society.
Married Steven Mullaney, 1980. Children: Emma Mullaney, Megan Mullaney.