Louise Glück
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born
April 22, 1943
gender
female
genre
Poetry
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Wild Iris by Louise Glück avg rating 4.17 — 666 ratings — published 1992 4 editions |
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Averno: Poems by Louise Glück avg rating 4.13 — 296 ratings — published 2006 4 editions |
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The First Four Books Of Poems by Louise Glück avg rating 4.13 — 249 ratings — published 1990 2 editions |
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Meadowlands by Louise Glück avg rating 4.12 — 218 ratings — published 1996 3 editions |
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Vita Nova by Louise Glück avg rating 3.85 — 194 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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Ararat (American Poetry Series) by Louise Glück avg rating 4.01 — 154 ratings — published 1992 2 editions |
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Proofs and Theories by Louise Glück avg rating 3.92 — 155 ratings — published 1994 3 editions |
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The Seven Ages by Louise Glück avg rating 3.91 — 150 ratings — published 2000 4 editions |
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October (Quarternote Chapbook Series) by Louise Glück avg rating 4.40 — 50 ratings — published 2004 |
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The House on the Marshland by Louise Glück avg rating 4.22 — 37 ratings — published 1975 2 editions |
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"The Red Poppy
The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered."
— Louise Glück
The great thing
is not having
a mind. Feelings:
oh, I have those; they
govern me. I have
a lord in heaven
called the sun, and open
for him, showing him
the fire of my own heart, fire
like his presence.
What could such glory be
if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters,
were you like me once, long ago,
before you were human? Did you
permit yourselves
to open once, who would never
open again? Because in truth
I am speaking now
the way you do. I speak
because I am shattered."
— Louise Glück
""Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.""
— Louise Glück (The Seven Ages)
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.""
— Louise Glück (The Seven Ages)
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