- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Against Aesthetics
- The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- The Sovereign Ghost of Wallace Stevens
- Eliot in Ink
- Larkin’s Toads
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Frost’s Notebooks
- Heaney’s Chain
- Heaney’s Ghosts
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- World War II Poetry, Reloaded
- Frank O’Hara’s Shopping Bag
- The Village of Louise Glück
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Nobody’s Perfect
- Elizabeth Bishop at the New Yorker
- Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp
- A Critic’s Notebook
- A List of Don’ts
- Permissions
- Books Under Review
- Index of Authors Reviewed
The Village of Louise Glück
The Village of Louise Glück
- Chapter:
- (p.203) The Village of Louise Glück
- Source:
- Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure
- Author(s):
William Logan
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
This chapter reviews Louise Glück's A Village Life. Glück uses the village as a convenient lens to examine the lives within, which counterpoint the memories of her life without. A Village Life is a subversive departure for a poet used to meaning more than she can say. All these years that Glück has been writing her stark, emaciated verse, there has been an inner short-story writer itching to break out. The lines are long, the poems sputtering on, sometimes for pages, until they finally run out of gas. Nonetheless, there is a faith in speech, as well as a generosity of instinct, apparent in these laggardly lines, though the reader may be forgiven for thinking that some charities are impositions.
Keywords: poets, poetry, Louise Glückm, A Village Life, reviews
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- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Title Pages
- Acknowledgments
- Against Aesthetics
- The Unbearable Rightness of Criticism
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- The Sovereign Ghost of Wallace Stevens
- Eliot in Ink
- Larkin’s Toads
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Frost’s Notebooks
- Heaney’s Chain
- Heaney’s Ghosts
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- World War II Poetry, Reloaded
- Frank O’Hara’s Shopping Bag
- The Village of Louise Glück
- Verse Chronicle
- Verse Chronicle
- Nobody’s Perfect
- Elizabeth Bishop at the New Yorker
- Elizabeth Bishop at Summer Camp
- A Critic’s Notebook
- A List of Don’ts
- Permissions
- Books Under Review
- Index of Authors Reviewed