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A VILLAGE LIFE - LOUISE GLÜCK KARTONIERT (TB)

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE   A Village Life  Louise Glück's eleventh collection of
poems  begins in the topography of a village  a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or
place:  All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.    Avenue of Liberty  Avenue of the
Acacia Trees-    The fountain rises at the center of the plaza     on sunny days  rainbows in
the piss of the cherub.    -from "tributaries"   Around the fountain are concentric circles of
figures  organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields  a river  and  like the fountain's
opposite  a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time  all taken in at a glance 
without any undue sensation of speed.   Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet 
since Ararat  she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here  for the
first time  she speaks as "the type of describing  supervising intelligence found in novels
rather than poetry " as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines-expansive  fluent  and
full-manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic  she focuses not on
action but on pauses and intervals  moments of suspension (rather than suspense)  in a
dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

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