In the final chapter, for example, as the protagonists attend a celebration for their first birthday, “Marigold … looked grimly out at the party from her high chair.
Instead, like her poetry, it gains its force from acute observation. The book might sound limited or even, given its subject matter, twee.
First crawling, then walking and climbing, then talking.” During this period their grandmother dies, their mother experiments with going back to work, and they are “distracted, like all babies, by feelings of triumph. Ten short chapters tell us – though not in exact chronological order – about the first year in the life of twin girls, the eponymous Marigold and Rose. Marigold and Rose can be devoured in a single sitting, and that’s probably the best way to enter its tonal world, which is strangely hypnotic, in part because the mood never swings to violent intensity, and in part because of the orderly rhythms of Glück’s prose. None of this has changed in her first published fiction. In 13 poetry collections and two volumes of essays, Glück’s emotional intelligence never surrenders to cosy consolation, yet the writing remains exquisitely beautiful.
While her earlier work explores family psychodrama, these books portray the emotional violence of mid-life. The Seven Ages, from 2001 – a stunning reflection on human destiny – was preceded by both The Triumph of Achilles (1985) and Ararat (1990), for example, and followed by Averno (2005), named after the traditional site of the entrance to hell. They might have added that she makes the individual female experience universal, joining it to the canon of male mythology in ways even her titles make clear. Urn:oclc:860623103 Scandate 20110416153416 Scanner hen the American poet Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2020, the Swedish Academy commended her “voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. OL15834633W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 67.31 Pages 106 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:3630872514 BoxID IA1557408 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:33:02 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA119608 Boxid_2 CH104501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatenote shipped Donor
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