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- Song is the poet' s mode of faithfulness, substituting the beauty of its music for the beauty of the lost beloved. As Glück writes in "Lute Song," "I made a harp of disaster/ to perpetuate the beauty of my last love."
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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”...
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
Oct 16, 2023 · Louise Glück, who contributed poems to The New Yorker for half a century, died on Friday. We’ve gathered reflections on her life and work from writers and poets who knew, read, and studied with...
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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Oct 12, 2020 · Louise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, teaches at Yale and Stanford. Her next book of poems, “Winter Recipes from the Collective,” will be published in 2021. Poetry by...
Jun 10, 2024 · When we think of Glück as a poet of earliest experience, we naturally recall the famous lines from “Nostos”: “We look at the world once, in childhood. / The rest is memory.” Things are somewhat more agonized in “Night Thoughts,” from Winter Recipes : “There is no one alive anymore / who remembers me as a baby.”
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.
