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A Village Life
A Village Life: Poems | Louise Gluck
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A Village Life, Louise Glck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees The fountain rises at the center of the plaza; on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub. from "tributaries" Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glck has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long linesexpansive, fluent, and fullmanifesting a calm omniscience. While Glck's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.
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Thndrstd
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Gluck's eleventh collection is a powerful meditation as she creates the lives of men, women, children of an unnamed Mediterranean village over generations. Some leave only to return, some stay their whole lives, all questioning their motives and decisions. A beautiful, passionate work of a major poet. Highly recommended.

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Thndrstd @Suet624 you‘ll love it. It‘s so good 4y
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charl08
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All her life she dreamed of living by the sea..

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AnneCecilie
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I hadn‘t heard about Louise Gluck before she won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. Since the waiting list at the library was insane, I decided to buy my own copy of one of collections and I‘m so glad I did.

To me it feels like every poem tells a story. About youth, marriage, growing old, meeting a friend for coffee and burning leaves. All things that happen in a village.

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AnneCecilie
A Village Life: Poems | Louise Gluck
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From the poem “Tribulations”

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BkClubCare
A Village Life: Poems | Louise Gluck
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Last poetry collection of the year and may let it carry over (vs rush thru just to finish by 12/31 🙄) I am enjoying it. #DogsofLitsy #EstherAssisting #poetry

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Jari-chan
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My second book by Louise Glück and my second book of my #BookSpinBingo list

This time, instead of Gods and Heroes, the author takes a close look at the human life on the country side and how it affects nature. Again, beautifully written. I prefered “Averno“ a bit more, since it fascinated me more, but when it comes to quality and literarcy, both books are absolutly worth reading.

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