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As Glück writes in "Lute Song," "I made a harp of disaster/ to perpetuate the beauty of my last love." However, the. lingering dissonance that prevents the word "disaster" from harmonizing.
Similarly, in "Lute Song": "Yet my anguish, such as it is,/remains the struggle for form." Even though "No one wants to be the muse;/in the end, everyone wants to be Orpheus," artistic form fails to bring her the desired transcendence. Instead, art comes to be seen as a masculinist attempt at mastery, a willful annulment of
Dec 7, 2020 · I particularly loved the song from Cymbeline, understanding probably not a word but hearing the tone, the cadences, the ringing imperatives, thrilling to a very timid, fearful child.
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Nov 3, 2020 · Glück’s literary and imagistic obsessions are the body, flowers, and decay. In every book — and perhaps every poem — Glück scrutinizes and reimagines the nature of endings.
Jun 10, 2024 · Teju Cole examines the final books by poet Louise Glück, marking a turn from the myth to the fable.
Oct 21, 2023 · A celebrated poet and Nobel laureate, Louise Glück's lyric voice still reverberates after her death, in part because of how consistently she turned her attention to questions of mortality.
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Mar 19, 2021 · Gluck repeatedly rejects the idea that she is a confessional poet, yet many of her poems are clearly based on the material and suffering in her personal life. However, when we read her work, we are forced to agree that she is far from confessional in the manner, say, of Sylvia Plath or Robert Lowell.
