Wild Iris - Softcover

Louise Gluck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857542231 ISBN 13: 9781857542233

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.

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Review:

"There are a few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Gluck ranks at the Cop of the list. Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain."-- David Biespiel, "The Washington Post""Louise Gluck is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither "confessional" nor "Intellectual" in the usual senses of those words, which are often thought to represent two camps in the life of poetry.... What a strange book "The Wild Iris" is, appearing in this "fin-de-siecle, " written in the language of flowers. It Is a "lieder" cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form. It wagers everything on the poetic energy remaining in the old troubadour image of the spring, the Biblical lilies of the field, natural resurrection."-- Helen Vendler, "The New Republic"

About the Author:

Louise Gluck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is The Seven Ages. Louise Gluck teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1857542231
• ISBN 13: 9781857542233
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80