A review by sriq
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems by Louise Glück

"I felt/
something true had been spoken/
and though I would have preferred to have spoken it myself/
I was glad at least to have heard it."

"You must ask yourself, he said, if you deceive yourself./
By which I mean looking at the watch and not/
the hand holding it."

"How hard it was/
to be alive, no wonder/
they all died."

"We are all of us in this room/
still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love./
We search for it all our lives,/
even after we find it."