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A review by casparb
A Village Life: Poems by Louise Glück
This collection is doing strange things for me it arrives at a bizarre place in her bibliography and while it’s too early for me to say I am wondering how we take it as a contribution to the oeuvre. When Louise is autobiographical here she’s at her best I think & this occurs in Noon, At The River, & the title poem. I kind of feel I ought to know more about the development of this collection because I’m wondering if this autobiographical spring exists as an expansion of what has been put down already - in many ways it can feel a few steps back on the conceptual level from the previous three collections Averno - The Seven Ages - Vita Nova
March is quite beautiful and Louise most explicitly Eliot she’s lifting lines rather than her usual allusion. Again I like it but also I’m wondering why it’s taking place at this point in her career and whether it coheres with the collection.
It’s a collection of SCENES & more so than usual it’s her expertise and I suppose the title alludes to this. Recurring bats and burning leaves to be unpacked maybe cinema is a muse more than usual but that’s an instinct not an analysis
March is quite beautiful and Louise most explicitly Eliot she’s lifting lines rather than her usual allusion. Again I like it but also I’m wondering why it’s taking place at this point in her career and whether it coheres with the collection.
It’s a collection of SCENES & more so than usual it’s her expertise and I suppose the title alludes to this. Recurring bats and burning leaves to be unpacked maybe cinema is a muse more than usual but that’s an instinct not an analysis