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9780880014779

The First Four Books of Poems

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  • ISBN13:

    9780880014779

  • ISBN10:

    0880014776

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-09-10
  • Publisher: INGRAM
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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, we see the conscious progression of apoet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth.

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Excerpts

The Chicago Train


Across from me the whole ride

Hardly stirred: just Mister with his barren

Skull across the arm-rest while the kid

Got his head between his mama's legs and slept. The poison

That replaces air took over.

And they sat-as though paralysis preceding death

Had nailed them there. The track bent south.

I saw her pulsing crotch... the lice rooted in that baby's hair.

(Continues...)

Excerpted from First Four Books Of Poems by Louise Gluck Copyright © 2003 by Louise Gluck
Excerpted by permission. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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