Five Poets Reflect On Their Relationship With Louise Glück
"Someone once told me that Louise Glück said writing through grief did not bring catharsis but, rather, clarity. Louise was my teacher. After she died, I went looking for a certain line of hers to encapsulate her poems. How to describe her astounding style? Lucid and mysterious? Wry and plaintive? Colloquial and oracular? I wanted her to tell me. "
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jane Huffman on Language as Form
"In 'The Rest,' I use the repeating language pattern to demonstrate a breakdown from idea into sound, from the recognizable image—a vase of flowers—into something stranger, something that attends to the 'prehistorical, preconceptual and prelinguistic' utterance 'prior to its translation into language-mediated conceptual sense.'" |
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