A review by casparb
Ararat by Louise Glück

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.