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A review by casparb
Firstborn: Poems by Louise Glück
I love sea poems I’m an easy please & I didn’t expect to enjoy Firstborn as much as I did it is extraordinarily un-Louise and much of the form looks to
me like it’s pinched from Sexton but I look past things. There are already crisp images plucked to place and that’s most of our way to shape
Fixed on O my friend, I’m holding /Back epiphany. she’s just swinging and that’s a voice from elsewhere but it’s - amazing - as a line. so daring. But perfect, indescribably perfect for its place in the debut collection
We’re not talking about the line about the oven
Also this sounds horrendous but Glück’s antipathy for sex in this collection is so marvellously drawn together it’s not unique to this isn’t she explicit enough in Mock Orange but there’s a drive to it here I like to see. The Edge. The Chicago Train. Bridal Piece. Nurse’s Song.
I have survived my life.
me like it’s pinched from Sexton but I look past things. There are already crisp images plucked to place and that’s most of our way to shape
Fixed on O my friend, I’m holding /Back epiphany. she’s just swinging and that’s a voice from elsewhere but it’s - amazing - as a line. so daring. But perfect, indescribably perfect for its place in the debut collection
We’re not talking about the line about the oven
Also this sounds horrendous but Glück’s antipathy for sex in this collection is so marvellously drawn together it’s not unique to this isn’t she explicit enough in Mock Orange but there’s a drive to it here I like to see. The Edge. The Chicago Train. Bridal Piece. Nurse’s Song.
I have survived my life.