The Poetry of Louise Glück: A Thematic Introduction (review)

Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken," begins Louise Glück's "The Untrustworthy Speaker"; to a flower in the title poem of her poetic sequence The Wild Iris (1992) are given the words, "whatever / returns from oblivion returns / to find a voice".1 The vo...

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Published in:Modernism/modernity (Baltimore, Md.) Md.), 2008, Vol.15 (3), p.583-585
Main Author: Sastri, Reena
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Divestiture
Morris, Daniel
Nonfiction
Poetry
Poets
Reading
Theory
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Summary:Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken," begins Louise Glück's "The Untrustworthy Speaker"; to a flower in the title poem of her poetic sequence The Wild Iris (1992) are given the words, "whatever / returns from oblivion returns / to find a voice".1 The voice of Glück's poems arrests and engages, offering what Glück has said she seeks in poetry: "the sound of an authentic being," an "immediacy, [a] volatility" that gives poems that achieve it "paradoxical durability.
ISSN:1071-6068
1080-6601
1080-6601
DOI:10.1353/mod.0.0017