The Wild Iris
by:
Louise Glück (author)
This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.
This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780880013345 (0880013346)
ASIN: 880013346
Publish date: November 1st 1993
Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 63
Edition language: English
I love the way “The Wild Iris” is soothing yet thought-provoking. It has the right balance of nature imagery which begins lulling the reader to sleep while slipping in some insightful questions and thoughts at the right moments which not only act as a jolting wake up but get the thought process goin...
Can I just say WOW! This is a short collection of poetry, but my god, I wish I could underline some of these stanzas, and use them for inspiration. Really powerful, moving, and relateable.I need to get my own copy soon.
A cycle of religious poems that frame their troubled intensity and strong emotion in words of elegant austerity; for me that makes it more effective. Original and striking, though occasionally prosy.
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