POEMS 1962

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 t his need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. Th e reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape?Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a gar den, a h...[Read more]