The Wild Iris

✍ Scribed by Louise Glück

• Book ID: 104526871
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 8 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780880012812

✦ Synopsis

“There are a few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Gluck ranks at the top of the list. Her writing’s emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain.” —David Biespiel, The Washington Post

“Louise Gluck is 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” in the usual senses of those words, which are often thought to represent two camps in the life of poetry What a strange book The Wild Iris is, appearing in this fin de siècle, written in the language of flowers. It is a lieder cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form. It wagers everything on the poetic energy remaining in the old troubadour image of the spring, the Biblical lilies of the field, natural resurrection.” —Helen Vendler, The New Republic