by Louise Glück
Louise Gluck is the only poet I can confidently call my favourite. I’ve enjoyed collections by other poets, and individual works by a few, but with Gluck there is always consistency, even if the style is a bit different. “A Village Life” takes on a very prose-like form, with longer lines and stanzas...
Longer lines, longer poems, an essentially hermetically sealed, vaguely Mediterranean, vaguely contemporary world: new for (my experience of) Gluck, and new is always interesting and worth a look. I'm not sure the long lines are warranted (they feel like they're simply double her shorter lines), b...
Louise Gluck's A Village Life will continue Gluck's leading role in American poetry, although it presents a more narrative style than her earlier work. We are presented with a unnamed, vaguely Mediterranean setting in an unclear time. In other words, the focus here is on the people.The theme is fami...
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