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blurstoftimes 's review for:
Meadowlands
by Louise Glück
A stunning collection that wrestles between generic hybridity and heady wonderment. For those who haven’t read The Odyssey, you may struggle to grapple with the context, but Glück herself is often unconcerned with mimicking the fables, instead she opts to repaint it with her own life design in substitution.
Some stunningly poetic aphorisms:
“Nothing
is always the answer; the answer
depends on the story.”
and
“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”
The text does lose its way a bit towards the end, and not every poem (“Parable of The Beast” felt detached from the action, in my opinion) is necessary or as poignant as “Moonless Night” and “Nostos,” but there’s at least something to gain from reading them.
Maybe a bit anticlimactic too. I didn’t feel a full resolve by the end. Maybe thats what Glück wants?
Some stunningly poetic aphorisms:
“Nothing
is always the answer; the answer
depends on the story.”
and
“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”
The text does lose its way a bit towards the end, and not every poem (“Parable of The Beast” felt detached from the action, in my opinion) is necessary or as poignant as “Moonless Night” and “Nostos,” but there’s at least something to gain from reading them.
Maybe a bit anticlimactic too. I didn’t feel a full resolve by the end. Maybe thats what Glück wants?