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Louise Glück
Louise Glück
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"...
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Averno  
by Louise Glück

Averno
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From Publisher's Weekly:

In a collection as good as her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris (1992), Glück gives the Persephone myth a staggering new meaning, casting that forlorn daughter as a soul caught in "an argument between the mother and the lover."

In 17 multi-part lyrics centered in her familiar quatrains, Glück traces Persephone's arc from innocence to, unhappily, experience: "This is the light of autumn," she writes in "October," "not the light that says/ I am reborn."

Through poems like "A Myth of Devotion" or "Persephone the Wanderer" Glück puts together a sequence that enacts the tradition of writing poetry about Greek myth, and defies it.

Paperback, 79 pages



Other Notable Books

Human Dark with Sugar
By Brenda Shaughnessy

The winner of the 2008 James Laughlin Award for an Outstanding second collection.

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The Father of the Predicaments
By Heather McHugh

In this witty and deeply felt collection, McHugh's poems cut to the quick, delivering their revelations with awesome precision.

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Radio, Radio
By Ben Doller

Winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award.

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