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chelseavk's review against another edition
relaxing
medium-paced
2.0
This didn't really read like poetry. I always feel free verse needs to be extra strong in how it sounds and the images it makes, as well as the meaning it is expressing; but I didn't get that here. While reading it felt thrown out in any which way and called poetry.
kevinjfellows's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
eclairemoon's review against another edition
5.0
A most luminous slice of a volume that I've been brooding over for two years. Each poem has enough weight to carry the reader through weeks and months. Absolutely stunning.
mariefica's review against another edition
1.0
Me gustaron los tres últimos poemas. El nuevo traductor, muy bueno, pero es el peor poemario de Glück.
svetlanasterlin's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. But who would see this light, this small dot among the infinite stars? I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. How small it was, how brief. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be.
—A Work of Fiction
sageyywageyy's review against another edition
reflective
3.5
Well, after finishing (almost) Glück’s entire body of work, I feel as though I’ve gone through her whole life as a ghost observing her through various periods. It’s been tiresome yet rewarding: I can see why she was so adored.
Poems I liked: The Past, Theory of Memory, A Sharply Worded Silence, Aboriginal Landscape, Forbidden Music, The Open Window, A Foreshortened Journey, The Horse and Rider, A Work of Fiction, A Summer Garden & The Couple in the Park.
Poems I liked: The Past, Theory of Memory, A Sharply Worded Silence, Aboriginal Landscape, Forbidden Music, The Open Window, A Foreshortened Journey, The Horse and Rider, A Work of Fiction, A Summer Garden & The Couple in the Park.
sarabelmonte's review against another edition
4.0
«Todo este tiempo había tenido la vertiginosa sensación de estar flotando sobre mi propia vida. Muy lejos esa vida había sucedido. ¿Pero seguía sucediendo? Esa era la cuestión.»
jenmkin's review against another edition
4.0
as always, louise glück’s poetry is beautiful. this isn’t my favorite of her collections but i have to give it four stars for ‘theory of memory’ alone