5/14/2023 0 Comments Averno by Louise Glück![]() For instance, in the poem “October,” she writes: “ Come to me, said the world. Alternatively: the stripped fields, thus the coldness of the body.įor so much imagery about nature, Glück’s poems are, more often than not, hinged upon the witnessing of that nature and the memory of that witnessing. ![]() The speaker’s body is cold, thus the stripped fields. “My body has grown cold like the stripped fields,” she writes in her poem “October,” and this image plays out in two directions of causality. The speaker in Glück’s poems is ever-present, yet also seems to exist passively the speaker’s function is to watch, to listen and to remember. ![]() Instead, in “Averno,” there’s the sense that what is felt in the land is also felt in the body, and vice-versa. When writing about nature, it’s all too easy to think about it as a reflection of human emotion: I’m in awe of nature, and so I write to preserve that beauty in writing or I’m sad or angry, and I want to write a world where everything is about my sadness or anger. Recently awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Glück writes in a way that makes me very conscious of the relationship between the body and the natural world. Tell me, I would ask him, / how can I endure the earth?” “I think I can remember / being dead,” Louise Glück writes in her 2006 collection of poetry “Averno.” “Many times, in winter, / I approached Zeus. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |