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Wild Iris
by Louise Gluck
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780880013345 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive. 1992 National Book Award finalist.
Review:
"There are a few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Gluck ranks at the top of the list. Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain." David Biespiel, the Washington Post
Review:
"Louise Gluck is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither "confessional" nor "Intellectual" in the usual senses of those words, which are often thought to represent two camps in the life of poetry.... What a strange book The Wild Iris is, appearing in this fin-de-siecle, written in the language of flowers. It Is a lieder cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form. It wagers everything on the poetic energy remaining in the old troubadour image of the spring, the Biblical lilies of the field, natural resurrection." Helen Vendler, The New Republic
About the Author
Louise Glück has won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry andone collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Louise Glück teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780880013345
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Ecco
- Location:
- Hopewell, NJ :
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- American
- Subject:
- Literature
- Subject:
- American - General
- Subject:
- American poetry
- Subject:
- Single Author *
- Subject:
- Poetry
- Subject:
- Poetry (poetic works by one author)
- Subject:
- American poetry -- 20th century.
- Subject:
- General Poetry
- Copyright:
- c199
- Edition Number:
- 1st ed.
- Publication Date:
- January 1994
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 80
- Dimensions:
- 9.14x6.02x.23 in. .26 lbs.
