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May 7, 2021 · In A Myth of Devotion, Glück focuses on Hades’ role in the myth. At first, he appears as a thoughtful lover who wants Persephone’s first time in hell to be as comforting as possible. A gentle introduction to the shadows. However, what seems to be a sympathetic revision of Hades soon reveals its true purpose.
Jan 18, 2013 · The depiction of those unconscious desires is one of the basic functions of myth. It explains why Glück — drawn as she is to questions of who is doing what to whom, and why — returns ...
Throughout her work, but emerging clearly as a pattern in Descending Figure (1980), mythology has been deployed by Gliick as an attempt to stabilize and universalize the temporal, but also to deflect and reinforce the resulting "fated" stasis. The use of myth.
Through this myth, as in “October,” Glück hints that she simultaneously inhabits another dimension from which she observes life and death, a space she neither explains nor invites.
Oct 20, 2023 · “Glück casts the lives of Gretel—and of Moses, Jesus, Achilles, Joan of Arc—into language that bridges the world of myth or ancient history or fairy tale and the world of our present,” he writes....
- Emma Sarappo
Dec 12, 2019 · Glück is well-known for her reworking of Roman and Greek myths, so I’ve chosen to spotlight her poem “ A Myth of Devotion.” The poem is part of her collection entitled Averno , a series of eighteen poems about the myth of Persephone.
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We mourn the death of Louise Glück, a poet, a recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, with a look back at four decades of her work in the Review. From July 1981, “Mock Orange”.
