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lisaelizabhet's review against another edition
4.0
“LA AMAPOLA ROJA
Es gran cosa
no tener
una mente. Sentimientos:
oh, sí tengo de esos;
me gobiernan. Hice
que un señor en el cielo
llamara al sol, y me abrí
para él, le mostré
el fuego de mi propio corazón, un fuego
como su presencia.
Qué otra cosa podría ser esa gloria
sino un corazón? Oh, hermanos y hermanas mías,
alguna vez fueron como yo, hace mucho,
antes de ser humanas? Acaso
se permitieron
abrirse una vez, ustedes que nunca
se abrirían de nuevo? Porque en realidad
ahora estoy hablando
como lo hacen ustedes. Yo hablo
porque estoy destruida”.
isobelline's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
slow-paced
3.0
I might be in the minority on this one, but I can't really connect with Louise Gluck. There were moments that I liked, but in the end, I didn't really care. And I wanted to care so much, because I've heard so many good things about her and about this collection in particular! But to me it seemed judgmental and samey, too abstract for my liking. Sorry.
alyssapusateri's review against another edition
reflective
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Death
sriq's review
"the happy heart/
wanders the garden like a falling leaf, a figure for/
the part, not the whole."
"why/
do you treasure your voice/
when to be one thing/
is to be next to nothing?"
"or to show me you are not the light I called to/
but the blackness behind it."
"but why/
start anything so close to the end?"
wanders the garden like a falling leaf, a figure for/
the part, not the whole."
"why/
do you treasure your voice/
when to be one thing/
is to be next to nothing?"
"or to show me you are not the light I called to/
but the blackness behind it."
"but why/
start anything so close to the end?"
dialmmmfor's review
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
4.0
Beautiful poems, reflective of God and life and death