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Poems 1962-2012 (2012)

by Louise Glück(Favorite Author)

4.49 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374126089 (ISBN13: 9780374126087)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: One of those leisurely reads. You know, when the morning paper's late. Read a few Louises. Plain, conversational, at times unlovely. As with Hemingway, gives you ideas. Yes, I can do this. Deceivingly simple. No problem. Imitation. Success. But, not really. Luckily, we share a love of the earth, the seasons, plants, animals. Louise writes much more first-person than I dare to. Confessional stuff. Her husband, God help us. Persephone, Gods help her. But it finished strong. "The Village" set. Thornton Wilder would be proud. As I am. To finish. At last. Now need a new fill-in for when the morning paper's late. And boy is it late. A lot.
review 2: This is the book you'll want to spend time with. Not because the poems are difficult (though they occasionally can be) ... morebut because the poems are so candid and brave. It's wonderful to see that even the very early poems had a wildness, an untamed nature that made the work refreshing. This is a dream gift for anyone who's a fan of Gluck. The size of the book makes it most suitable for libraries. If this book had existed when I was in graduate school, I would have made it my prize collection and quoted from it extensively. less

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