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A review by bluelilyblue
A Village Life: Poems by Louise Glück
3.0
"When you got tired of walking/ you lay down in the grass. / When you got up, you could see for a moment where you'd been, / the grass was slick there, flattened out/ into the shape of a body. When you looked back later, / it was as though you'd never been there at all."
Some of the poems are sweet and evocative, others I couldn't care about that much, because they felt unfinished to me in some way -- as if the metaphors and the similes were clumsy and formulaic and failed to give the poem a more profound meaning. It's not my favourite work of Louise Glück's; but a weak collection from such an astounding writer is still good, so there are admittedly quite a few highlights, namely: Twilight, Noon, Earthworm, Solitude, Burning Leaves (all of them), Midsummer, A Village Life.
Some of the poems are sweet and evocative, others I couldn't care about that much, because they felt unfinished to me in some way -- as if the metaphors and the similes were clumsy and formulaic and failed to give the poem a more profound meaning. It's not my favourite work of Louise Glück's; but a weak collection from such an astounding writer is still good, so there are admittedly quite a few highlights, namely: Twilight, Noon, Earthworm, Solitude, Burning Leaves (all of them), Midsummer, A Village Life.