false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170894151m/76546.jpg 76546 4 In an earlier set of poems, <b>The Garden</b>, Gluck retold the myth of Eden; in this sequence it is clear that paradise has been lost, and the poet, Eve-like, struggles to make sense of her place in the universe. For this old and still post-modern theme, Gluck bravely takes the risk of adopting a highly symbolic structure. She uses the conceit of parallel discourses between the flowers of a garden and the gardener (the poet), and between the gardener/poet and an unnamed god. The reader shares the poet's human predicament of being caught between these material and spiritual worlds, each lush and musical, drawing inspiration from both: from the flowers, a hymn to communality; from the god, a universal view of human suffering. The collection was awarded the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. 74057 1992 Wild Iris total:684|5:306|4:229|3:111|2:34|1:4| 684 2851 900 66 5 1 false false Wed Mar 05 10:13:29 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 19:55:03 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 15:04:27 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 07 08:37:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 11 18:59:55 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 22:47:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 28 17:48:58 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 17:54:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Jun 01 21:12:06 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 21:12:54 -0700 2008 If I love Louise Glück, I adore The Wild Iris. There is not a single poem in this book that does not move me, speak to me, elicit some sort of positive response. As I mentioned in my earlier review, I came to Glück recently in an attempt to recover from the events of a particularly devastati...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 07 11:33:20 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 03 15:04:37 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 11:27:31 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 11:29:29 -0800 2008
Louise Gluck, author of The Wild Iris, is such a heroine of mine: Her words take the common (flowers, leaves, sun) a...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon May 28 16:34:19 -0700 2007 Mon May 28 16:55:04 -0700 2007 The Wild Iris is one of the great poetry anthologies in recent memory. My praise comes from Gluck's mastery of language and her ability to use old words in new ways not only to make the reader comfortable with old tropes of literature and poetry,...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 16 11:50:26 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 11:53:59 -0800 2008 3 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Apr 16 17:20:09 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 08:38:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Sep 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:02:14 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 13:12:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Jan 04 17:44:26 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 15:48:57 -0800 2009
1.19.09) updating this review to say...and i met the lady herself last night! AAAA! so scary meeting importantest contacts i could h...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 01 22:32:18 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 22:34:42 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 19:01:41 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 19:12:52 -0700 2009 Ararat is still my favorite Gluck book, but I bet I could reread and get something new out of this one each time.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 22:17:17 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 23:51:17 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu May 08 13:57:55 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 13:30:06 -0700 2008
This is how you live when you have a cold heart.
As I do: in shadows, trailing over cool rock,
under the great maple trees.

The sun hardly touches me.
Sometimes I see it in early spring, rising very far away.
Then leaves grow over it, completely h...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 15 17:51:50 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 17:53:33 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 21:40:28 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 10 21:13:46 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 03 14:13:33 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 10:40:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 02 08:58:31 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 02 08:59:28 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=76546