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jameswilbourn's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.5
No todos los poemas resonaron conmigo pero los que lo hicieron... Vaya bala al corazón. Tiene frases que te deja el alma encogida en un puño. No soy alguien muy dada a la poesía, pero me gustaría leer más de Louise Glück.
lisaelizabhet's review
4.0
Hay poemarios que me hacen sentir que estoy recibiendo revelaciones del Universo y están los de Louise que me caen como piedras heladas en la cabeza o que son una mano refregándome la cara en la tierra. Y no es malo. Estos poemas autobiográficos son bien al “hueso” aunque también hay ternura. Me gusta cómo describe la dinámica familiar y que no tema admitir las oscuridades de esta. No conecté con tantos poemas porque tengo que admitir que soy más cursi para mis cosas y ella no lo es, aunque eso no impidió que pudiera apreciar su gran talento.
“Mi madre quiere saber
por qué, si tanto odio
la familia,
fundé una y la saqué
adelante. No le contesto.
Lo que odiaba
era ser una niña,
no podía elegir
a quién amar”.
“Mi madre quiere saber
por qué, si tanto odio
la familia,
fundé una y la saqué
adelante. No le contesto.
Lo que odiaba
era ser una niña,
no podía elegir
a quién amar”.
casparb's review
Okay this is my 80th book for this month !! I just noticed on Friday that this was something I could do
We are hitting DETAIL o but I like this for Louise it exists in stillness perhaps that's just memory but in Ararat there's a collective listening/looking a held moment as held breath leaks from Vermeer.
I'm absolutely down with Paradise. I'm getting whiffs of Ovid here I think Louise alludes to Echo & Narcissus which is a beautIFUL conceit for a poetry collection I'd like that to be fully developed
Partly because she's just really good but I'm amazed by how relevant Catherine Malabou is all over the place even from just the short piece I read. Destructive plasticity as I said it's a concept that demands wider familiarity. Some of my favourite work from LG on mourning communities & materialism which if I'm responsible I'll come back to
don't be afraid that's how they paraphrase
the heartbeat of the mother.
So the living slowly grow calm; it's only
the dying who can't, who refuse.
We are hitting DETAIL o but I like this for Louise it exists in stillness perhaps that's just memory but in Ararat there's a collective listening/looking a held moment as held breath leaks from Vermeer.
I'm absolutely down with Paradise. I'm getting whiffs of Ovid here I think Louise alludes to Echo & Narcissus which is a beautIFUL conceit for a poetry collection I'd like that to be fully developed
Partly because she's just really good but I'm amazed by how relevant Catherine Malabou is all over the place even from just the short piece I read. Destructive plasticity as I said it's a concept that demands wider familiarity. Some of my favourite work from LG on mourning communities & materialism which if I'm responsible I'll come back to
don't be afraid that's how they paraphrase
the heartbeat of the mother.
So the living slowly grow calm; it's only
the dying who can't, who refuse.
jmarkwindy's review
3.0
"Parodos" / "A Fantasy" / "A Novel" / "The Untrustworthy Speaker" / "A Fable" / "Child Crying Out" / "Celestial Music" / "First Memory"
librocrone's review
challenging
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
There were some really beautiful turns of phrase in this collection that hit home, but in general not my favorite collection I’ve ever read, nor my favorite of Louise Gluck’s.
namastayyy's review
reflective
sad
4.0
This poetry collection was a bullet with my name on it.
So sorry to tell you Gluck but you must choose to either be besties with your sister, or worst enemies. Nuance like this is not allowed amongst our people. So sorry to tell you this. Good luck having a sister and having to live with yourself as you are for the rest of your life though 👍
So sorry to tell you Gluck but you must choose to either be besties with your sister, or worst enemies. Nuance like this is not allowed amongst our people. So sorry to tell you this. Good luck having a sister and having to live with yourself as you are for the rest of your life though 👍
faloodamooda's review
reflective
slow-paced
2.5
i usually love her work but i was underwhelmed by this