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Winter Recipes from the Collective
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems | Louise Gluck
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A haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Glcks thirteenth book of poems is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sisters death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. Some of you will know what I mean, the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last. This magnificent book couldnt have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.
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abookishbutterfly
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While I didn‘t love this collection quite as much as some of the random Louise Glück poems I‘ve read, it was still a profound, high quality read. I‘m looking forward to reading more of her older work.

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Portsidelib
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Well this one‘s got me all…you know what. Getting old is terrifying. Whew.

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Thndrstd
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The Nobel Prize winner's most recent book is, of course, beautiful, even if short, even by the standards of poetry volumes. The encroaching darkness and Death are prominent themes here, and the poet wrestles beauty from them even as she questions the meaning of it all.

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behudd
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️I don‘t read collections of poems often,but I wish I did, and hopefully this masterful collection will spur that in me. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature,this small collection is haunting & transportive, and,as all good poems should do, even if I wasn‘t sure what was happening, I know what I was feeling &that is a feat. I actually read this last week but since it was a Christmas gift for my sister, I didn‘t post the review til now ;)