This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive. 1992 National Book Award finalist.
When I made you, I loved you
Now I pity you.
I gave you all you needed:
bed of earth, blanket of blue air-
As I get further away from you
I see vou more clearly.
Your souls should have been immense by now,
not what they are,
small talking things-
I gave you every gift,
blue of the spring morning,
time you didn't know how to use-
you wanted more, the one gift
reserved for another creation.
Whatever you hoped,
you will not find yourselves in the garden,
among the growing plants
Your lives are not circular like theirs:
your lives are the bird's flight
which begins and ends in stillness- which begins and ends, in form echoing
this arc from the white birch
to the apple tree.
Louise Glvck (查看原文)
“I’ve sung to you long enough in the summer night” “Time to rest now.” What about grief? Grief is the “deep blue makes the wild scilla, white the wood violet”; grief is a “naked stem reaching the porch wjndow”, and at the end, “a small blue flower...
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Born to aspire to light, enlightment, greatness. Or second rate: wisdom, maturity, expertise. Tender and tolerance to ignorance, generosity to want and necessity is not her nature. Guiding and patience to innocence not her strength. Yet you will also be mat...
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Sometimes a man or woman forces his despair on another person, which is called baring the heart, alternatively, baring the soul - meaning for this moment they acquired souls- outside, a summer evening, a whole world thrown away on the moon. Once I believed ...
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0 有用 一笼 2022-02-03 11:18:18
邊看邊查了好多花兒，都是那晶瑩幽靜的紫藍色。很順暢平實的文字，卻搭建出一個空靈的世界。銀藍色的月光，闔頁仍有花兒的馨香。似乎溶溶於自然間，所有的孤獨和悲傷在其中流轉，淡然如清茗。翻到最後一頁，the author lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts。🌸
0 有用 小波丢 2022-10-12 09:07:47 湖北
第一次尝试读英诗原著。希望借助Louise Gruck，按图索骥（诺贝尔文学奖中的美国诗人、美国桂冠诗人、耶鲁青年诗人奖评委等），走入美国当代诗歌。
0 有用 顾予美 2021-12-28 10:10:07
"Hush, beloved. It doesn't matter to me how many summers I live to return: this one summer we have entered eternity."
0 有用 Adelaina 2024-03-10 20:34:27 新加坡
She must be a lonely woman, to imagine all living things talk to her.. But in all that isolation/introspection, a splendid garden grows
0 有用 beluga 2022-04-21 22:02:54
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