Louise gluck full biography of kirstie

Manchester: Carcarnet Press,Vita Nova. Manchester: Carcarnet Press, The Seven Ages. A Village Life. Poems Manchester: Carcarnet, Faithful and Virtuous Night. American Originality: Essays on Poetry. From the Blog:. See Also:. They are books of individual poems, but they make a narrative sequence, and so they are able to explore a subject in many moods and from many points of view in a way that is reminiscent of the old sonnet sequences that explored all the phases of a love affair.

The first one, Araratdealt with a family of three women in the aftermath of the death of a husband and father. The second one, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iriswas a meditation on the turning of the year in a northern New England garden. The third, Meadowlandsbased on the story of Ulysses and Penelope and Telemachus, was about a marriage coming apart.

The newest one, published this year, is Vita Nova Ecco. Its subject is life after divorce. It begins from something like the place Emily Dickinson described so accurately:. Here are a couple of the poems: The Garment My soul dried up. Like a soul cast into a fire, but not completely, not to annihilation. Parched, it continued. Brittle, not from solitude but from mistrust, the aftermath of violence.

Spirit, invited to leave the body, to stand exposed a moment, -- trembling, as before your presentation to the divine -- spirit lured out of solitude by the promise of grace, how will you ever again believe the love of another being?

Louise gluck full biography of kirstie

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Her appropriation and reworking of canon, too, continued throughout the s.