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Poems 1962-2012 (Los Angeles Times Book Award: Poetry) by Gluck, Louise is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Poems 1962-2012 (Los Angeles Times Book Award: Poetry) about?
It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape—Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain—persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. From the outset (" Come here / Come here, little one "), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we "do not see the intervening fathoms." From within the earth's bitter disgrace,... ϡ쯦랠
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Gluck, Louise
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781847772305
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry
- Rating
- 4.7 / 5 (723 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14