{"id":148353,"date":"2020-10-13T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=148353"},"modified":"2020-10-13T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T16:05:49","slug":"redux-x-sends-regards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/13\/redux-x-sends-regards\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: X Sends Regards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Louise Gl\u00fcck. Photo: \u00a9 Katherine Wolkoff.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re highlighting the work of Louise Gl\u00fcck<\/a>, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature. Read on for her poems \u201cThe Denial of Death<\/a>,\u201d \u201cA Night in Spring<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cA Warm Day<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Denial of Death<\/a>
\nBy Louise Gl\u00fcck
\nIssue no. 226, Fall 2018<\/em><\/p>\n

I had left my passport at an inn we stayed at for a night or so whose name I couldn\u2019t remember. This is how it began. The next hotel would not receive me. A beautiful hotel, in an orange grove, with a view of the sea. How casually you accepted the room that would have been ours, and, later, how merrily you stood on the balcony, pelting me with foil-wrapped chocolates. The next day you resumed the journey we would have taken together.<\/p>\n

The concierge procured an old blanket for me. By day, I sat outside the kitchen. By night, I spread my blanket among the orange trees. Every day was the same, except for the weather.<\/p>\n

After a time, the staff took pity on me. A busboy would bring me food from the evening meal, the odd potato or bit of lamb. Sometimes a postcard arrived. On the front, glossy landmarks and works of art. Once, a mountain covered in snow. After a month or so there was a postscript: X sends regards<\/em> \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Night in Spring<\/a>
\nBy Louise Gl\u00fcck
\nIssue no. 183, Winter 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

They told her she came out of a hole in her mother
\nbut really it\u2019s impossible to believe
\nsomething so delicate could come out of something
\nso fat\u2014her mother naked
\nlooks like a pig. She wants to think
\nthe children telling her were making fun of her ignorance;
\nthey think they can tell her anything
\nbecause she doesn\u2019t come from the country, where people know these things.<\/p>\n

She wants the subject to be finished, dead. It troubles her
\nto picture this space in her mother\u2019s body,
\nreleasing human beings now and again,
\nhiding them, then dropping them into the world,
\nbut mostly just empty, like an empty room \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A Warm Day<\/a>
\nBy Louise Gl\u00fcck
\nIssue no. 183, Winter 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

Today the sun was shining
\nso my neighbor washed her nightdresses in the river\u2014
\nshe comes home with everything folded in a basket,
\nbeaming, as though her life had just been
\nlengthened a decade. Cleanliness makes her happy\u2014
\nit says you can begin again,
\nthe old mistakes needn\u2019t hold you back \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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