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Tag Archives: Louise Glück
“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück
It’s her birthday today. Louise Glück’s poetry sometimes hurts, touching wounds or fears and dreads so deep you don’t want to acknowledge they even exist. It feels like these things might overwhelm you if you give them any space. Glück … Continue reading
R.I.P. Louise Glück
It’s shockingly easy for life to become rote. It’s easy to allow awareness to drop beneath the surface – or, to be more accurate – it’s dismayingly easy to just exist on the surface of things. This happens mostly when … Continue reading
The Books: “The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry” – Louise Glück
Daily Book Excerpt: Poetry The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry, edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair For those of you new to me, I have been doing a daily (I use … Continue reading