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The First Four Books of Poems collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for The WildIris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. InFirstborn, The House on Marshland Wand, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which wonthe National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, w see the conscious progression of apoet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth.

Louise Gluck teaches at Williams College.

The Chicago Train	p. 5
The Egg	p. 6
Thanksgiving	p. 9
Hesitate to Call	p. 10
My Cousin in April	p. 11
Returning a Lost Child	p. 12
Labor Day	p. 13
The Wound	p. 14
Silverpoint	p. 16
Early December in Croton-on-Hudson	p. 17
The Edge	p. 21
Grandmother in the Garden	p. 22
Pictures of the People in the War	p. 23
The Racer's Widow	p. 24
Portrait of the Queen in Tears	p. 25
Bridal Piece	p. 26
My Neighbor in the Mirror	p. 27
My Life before Dawn	p. 28
The Lady in the Single	p. 29
The Cripple in the Subway	p. 30
Nurse's Song	p. 31
Seconds	p. 32
Letter from Our Man in Blossomtime	p. 33
The Cell	p. 34
The Islander	p. 35
Letter from Provence	p. 36
Memo from the Cave	p. 37
Firstborn	p. 38
La Force	p. 39
The Game	p. 40
Cottonmouth Country	p. 43
Phenomenal Survivals of Death in Nantucket	p. 44
Easter Season	p. 46
Scraps	p. 47
The Tree House	p. 48
Meridian	p. 49
Late Snow	p. 50
To Florida	p. 51
The Slave Ship	p. 52
Solstice	p. 53
The Inlet	p. 54
Saturnalia	p. 55
All Hallows	p. 61
The Pond	p. 62
Gretel in Darkness	p. 63
For My Mother	p. 64
Archipelago	p. 65
The Magi	p. 66
The Shad-blow Tree	p. 67
Messengers	p. 68
The Murderess	p. 69
Flowering Plum	p. 70
Nativity Poem	p. 71
To Autumn	p. 72
Still Life	p. 73
For Jane Myers	p. 74
Gratitude	p. 75
Poem	p. 76
The School Children	p. 77
Jeanne d'Arc	p. 78
Departure	p. 79
Gemini	p. 80
The Undertaking	p. 83
Pomegranate	p. 84
Brennende Liebe	p. 86
Abishag	p. 87
12. 6. 71	p. 89
Love Poem	p. 90
Northwood Path	p. 91
The Fire	p. 92
The Fortress	p. 93
Here Are My Black Clothes	p. 94
Under Taurus	p. 95
The Swimmer	p. 96
The Letters	p. 97
Japonica	p. 98
The Apple Trees	p. 99
The Drowned Children	p. 105
The Garden	p. 106
Palais des Arts	p. 111
Pieta	p. 112
Descending Figure	p. 113
Thanksgiving	p. 116
Epithalamium	p. 119
Illuminations	p. 120
The Mirror	p. 121
Portrait	p. 122
Tango	p. 123
Swans	p. 126
Night Piece	p. 127
Portland, 1968	p. 128
Porcelain Bowl	p. 129
Dedication to Hunger	p. 130
Happiness	p. 135
Autumnal	p. 139
Aubade	p. 140
Aphrodite	p. 141
Rosy	p. 142
The Dream of Mourning	p. 143
The Gift	p. 144
World Breaking Apart	p. 145
The Return	p. 146
Lamentations	p. 147
Mock Orange	p. 155
Metamorphosis	p. 156
Brooding Likeness	p. 159
Exile	p. 160
Winter Morning	p. 161
Seated Figure	p. 164
Mythic Fragment	p. 165
Hyacinth	p. 166
The Triumph of Achilles	p. 168
Baskets	p. 169
Liberation	p. 172
The Embrace	p. 175
Marathon	p. 176
Summer	p. 186
The Reproach	p. 189
The End of the World	p. 191
The Mountain	p. 194
A Parable	p. 195
Day Without Night	p. 197
Elms	p. 201
Adult Grief	p. 202
Hawk's Shadow	p. 203
From the Japanese	p. 204
Legend	p. 209
Morning	p. 211
Horse	p. 212
Index of Poems	p. 213
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