A Financial Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. Louise Gluck's
thirteenth book of poems is among her most haunting. Here as in The
Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human,
simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the
Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged
realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself
heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by
the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time
being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable
gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the
back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an
invigorating winter sandwich, a sister's death, the joyful presence
of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. "Some
of you will know what I mean," the poet says, by which she means,
some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the
voice containing all our lifetimes, "all the worlds, each more
beautiful than the last." This magnificent book couldn't have been
written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet
at any other time in her life.
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