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Sandra M. Gilbert
Sandra M. Gilbert
Awards
Winner — American Book Award, 2001
Shortlisted — Northern California Book Award, 2012
Books by Sandra M. Gilbert
The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity
Hardback, 2014
From the recipe novel to the celebrity chef, renowned scholar Sandra Gilbert explores the poetics and politics of food.
Emily's Bread: Poems
Paperback, 1984
"Ms. Gilbert's wit, energy and intelligence are formidable. She is well on her way to becoming one of our pre-eminent women-of-letters." —Carolyn Kizer
Inventions of Farewell: A Collection of Elegies
Hardback, 2001
Blood Pressure
Paperback, 1990
"The range of this new collection is exciting. Gilbert travels along the shifting boundaries of past and present with wonderful deftness, making Jackson Heights into a magic kingdom. I love this...
Ghost Volcano: Poems
Paperback, 1997
Here in her intense and beautiful fifth collection, Sandra Gilbert gathers the poems she wrote in memory of her husband's unexpected and inexplicable death.
Wrongful Death: A Memoir
Paperback, 1997
“A loving eulogy . . . a powerful and wrenching book.” —Los Angeles Times
Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999
Paperback, 2001
"[Her] poems startle on every page: at times they bring your heart to your throat."—Peter Dale Scott
Belongings: Poems
Paperback, 2006
An ambitious, intricately wrought corona of sonnets ponders the nature of belonging in every sense of the word.
Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
Paperback, 2007
"The most comprehensive multidisciplinary contemplation of mortality we are likely to get."--Thomas Lynch, New York Times Book Review
Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions
Hardback, 2011
A collection of essays that reexamine literature through a feminist gaze from "one of our most versatile and gifted writers" (Joyce Carol Oates).