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rbcp82's review against another edition
5.0
Really enjoyed reading this poetry collection. Gluck could easily become one of my favorite poets.
Night, mist, vague future, circularity, dream, death.
"But if the essence of time is change,
how can anything become nothing?
This was the question I asked myself."
Night, mist, vague future, circularity, dream, death.
"But if the essence of time is change,
how can anything become nothing?
This was the question I asked myself."
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