A review by dejnozkova
Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Louise Glück’s poetry captures a vulnerable sense of being lost in the sufferings of the world and crawling painfully towards wisdom and acceptance (and maybe a bit of resignation). Like many poets she uses her art to observe the world but half the time I think she ends up without much of an answer to the things she wonders about. A lot of her poetry is confessional and she often parallels her life and observations against Greek mythology (like, a lot). I’d say that she writes more softly, even when the subject matter is particularly dark. 

I definitely found a good many poems in this collection that I enjoyed and even the lonely ones felt like gentle embraces. I did get bored with the Greek and Christian themes after a while though —I just feel that these are overplayed.