Binding: Paperback
Description: Winner OF THE Nobel Prize IN Literature A dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize - winning poet A Village Life Louise Gl ck'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. Gl ck 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 lines expansive fluent and full manifesting a calm omniscience. While Gl ck'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.
Title: A Village Life Poems
Author(s): Gluck Louise
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374532437
Pages: 80 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/14/2010
Category: Poetry By Individual Poets