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moonlight_reader's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
there is something so truly magnificent and vulnerable about louise gluck's poetry that leaves you entranced by how her simple words are yet so many layers and depth to her poetry, a new introspective view on the world, death, love. this book is wonderful for people who love introspective poetry.
sunrays118's review against another edition
2.0
Honestly, this just didn’t do much for me.
Everyone other poem i found beautiful and intriguing but it was always next to a self indulgent poem with the same repeating words.
This collection simply wasn’t my thing.
Everyone other poem i found beautiful and intriguing but it was always next to a self indulgent poem with the same repeating words.
This collection simply wasn’t my thing.
apleiades17's review against another edition
4.0
"I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem there is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite endings.Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings."
casparb's review against another edition
Again a saucy change of pace & Louise's shift - ventriloquising a male voice - launches her into fresh territories night territories of herself. Indeed I love the conceit the night the John/Cross loom. Faithful and Virtuous indeed so I love the title poem (Restless, are you restless?) and moreover the general turn to the prose poem I think is expertly managed. Interspersions unintrusive but imprinting narratives.
Cornwall really is just one of my favourite Louise poems no bias & I love the sway of necessity the Cloud the Unknowing. Bemused by reference to mountains here but we'll say metaphor and move on.
I think this is the collection I'd most like to sit down & tie the mystic threads (fool's errand) - The familiar lightnings and prosopopoeias seem to me most pared & punching here there's an energy to them an urgency that reminds me of Malabou on aging ! As a distinct, traumatic event, not the gradual descent of the airplane. Burnt Norton seems a kind of model here & she's so much in line with the Eliotan rippling propositions -- A Summer Garden!!
As to the mystery of silence
I remained puzzled
less by my soul's retreat than
by its return, since it returned empty-handed.
Cornwall really is just one of my favourite Louise poems no bias & I love the sway of necessity the Cloud the Unknowing. Bemused by reference to mountains here but we'll say metaphor and move on.
I think this is the collection I'd most like to sit down & tie the mystic threads (fool's errand) - The familiar lightnings and prosopopoeias seem to me most pared & punching here there's an energy to them an urgency that reminds me of Malabou on aging ! As a distinct, traumatic event, not the gradual descent of the airplane. Burnt Norton seems a kind of model here & she's so much in line with the Eliotan rippling propositions -- A Summer Garden!!
As to the mystery of silence
I remained puzzled
less by my soul's retreat than
by its return, since it returned empty-handed.