The Wild Iris
by Gluck, LouiseEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-09-28
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
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.
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Excerpts
The Wild Iris
At the end of my suffering
there was a door.
Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.
Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.
It is terrible to survive
as consciousness
buried in the dark earth.
Then it was over: that which you fear, being
a soul and unable
to speak, ending abruptly, the stiff earth
bending a little. And what I took to be
birds darting in low shrubs.
You who do not remember
passage from the other world
I tell you I could speak again: whatever
returns from oblivion returns to find a voice:
from the center of my life came
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.
(Continues...)
Excerpted from Wild Iris by Louise Gluck Copyright © 2003 by Louise Gluck
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