Status
Available
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Collection
Publication
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2021), Edition: First Edition, 64 pages
Description
"A new collection from Louise Gl ck, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature"--
User reviews
LibraryThing member DonnaMarieMerritt
When I read this book aloud, it's beautiful. The sounds flow and I feel the melancholy and the joy and the hope and the despair of aging. I can't say that I understand all the poems, but the images will stay with me:
"...how merrily you stood on the balcony,
pelting me with foil-wrapped
"I could hear the clock ticking,
presumably alluding to the passage of time
while in fact annulling it."
"...We were sitting on our favorite bench
outside the common room, having
a glass of gin without ice.
Looked a lot like water, so the nurses
smiled at you as they passed,
pleased with how hydrated you were becoming."
"There is no one alive anymore
who remembers me as a baby."
Perhaps the title poem sums up this collection best:
"...The book contains
only recipes for winter, when life is hard. In spring,
anyone can make a fine meal."
"...how merrily you stood on the balcony,
pelting me with foil-wrapped
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chocolates...""I could hear the clock ticking,
presumably alluding to the passage of time
while in fact annulling it."
"...We were sitting on our favorite bench
outside the common room, having
a glass of gin without ice.
Looked a lot like water, so the nurses
smiled at you as they passed,
pleased with how hydrated you were becoming."
"There is no one alive anymore
who remembers me as a baby."
Perhaps the title poem sums up this collection best:
"...The book contains
only recipes for winter, when life is hard. In spring,
anyone can make a fine meal."
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Language
Original language
English