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A review by kcraig73
The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
A beautiful book from an incredibly skilled poet. This book definitely made me feel feelings. I think it’s best read in as few sittings as possible as there is a beautiful dialogue that is strung between the perspectives of the poems that feeds off of each other to make the whole more meaningful.
This particular physical book (the book as an object) also has deep meaning for me. I bought this book from a used bookstore a number of years ago. The place was called Adam’s Books (Columbia, MO) and at the time it was by appointment only (COVID). I was enamored by the look of this somewhat hole-in-the-wall used bookstore so I made an appointment. The shop owner was a delightful woman who talked to me a lot about the history of the place and about poetry. She recommended this book to me but almost didn’t sell it to me because she loved it herself so much. I like to think that she must’ve seen that I was going through a dark moment in my life because she did sell it to me and gave it to me at a discount. Now a few years later it has deeply touched me. So I’m thankful to her.
This particular physical book (the book as an object) also has deep meaning for me. I bought this book from a used bookstore a number of years ago. The place was called Adam’s Books (Columbia, MO) and at the time it was by appointment only (COVID). I was enamored by the look of this somewhat hole-in-the-wall used bookstore so I made an appointment. The shop owner was a delightful woman who talked to me a lot about the history of the place and about poetry. She recommended this book to me but almost didn’t sell it to me because she loved it herself so much. I like to think that she must’ve seen that I was going through a dark moment in my life because she did sell it to me and gave it to me at a discount. Now a few years later it has deeply touched me. So I’m thankful to her.