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First Four Books of Poems (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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First Four Books of Poems (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Discovery Miles 3 890
You Save R77 (17%)
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Louise Gluck says in one of her essays that every end of a book is
for her a "conscious diagnostic act, a swearing off" in which she
discerns the themes, habits, and preoccupations of the previous
volume to define the tasks of the next. The First Four Books of
Poems shows this poet in the conscious evolution she describes,
marking time in changes. Readers will hear specifics of sequence:
where the ferocious tension of her first book, Firstborn, moves
towards the more finely-spun lyricism of her second, The House on
Marshland. They will also discover how the charged nouns of that
book acquire more intimate weight to become the icons in her third,
Descending Figure, and then rise to an archetypal mythic scale in
The Triumph of Achilles. These poems are as various as the force of
Gluck's intelligence is constant. In another essay, she cautions,
"the deft skirting of despair is a life lived on the surface,
intimidated by depth, a life that refuses to be used by time, which
it tries instead to dominate or evade." The First Four Books of
Poems attests to how truly Gluck has tested and proven the validity
of her own warning. The fierce, austerely beautiful voice that has
become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in
unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the
achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth.
Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her
first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise
Gluck shows herself happily "used by time."
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