{"id":165790,"date":"2023-10-16T11:29:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=165790"},"modified":"2023-10-16T11:29:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T15:29:07","slug":"in-remembrance-of-louise-gluck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2023\/10\/16\/in-remembrance-of-louise-gluck\/","title":{"rendered":"In Remembrance of Louise Gl\u00fcck"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_165791\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165791\" class=\"wp-image-165791 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/unnamed.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/unnamed.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/unnamed-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/unnamed-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Katherine Wolkoff.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nearly thirty years ago, during my junior year of college, I took a poetry writing class with Louise Gl\u00fcck. I\u2019d never read any of her books, but I was aware of some undergraduate buzz about a visiting poet who\u2019d recently received the Pulitzer Prize for a book of talking flowers. Her last house had burned down; her father had made his money in blades; she would need someone to drive her to Star Market for groceries on weekends. (I volunteered once, waiting nervously in the parking lot until she returned with a cantaloupe and asparagus.) The person I met in the classroom was frighteningly honest about poetry, and about being a poet. She said it was okay not to write\u2014that she herself had gone several years without writing even a single poem\u2014so it would be perfectly fine if we didn\u2019t share any poems of our own with her that term. When we did turn in something for workshop, she mercilessly rooted out \u201cmannerisms\u201d in our poems; I became terrified of this critique, which only made my writing all the more mannered. She would linger over details like \u201cangels in homespun linen\u201d in a poem by Czes\u0142aw Mi\u0142osz; almost three decades later, I still remember her wry grin of envy at that image. More than anything else, Louise loved it when something was surprising and, in retrospect, inevitable, as it is so often in her work, and in our lives\u2014like the ending of her poem \u201cHappiness\u201d:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I open my eyes; you are watching me.<br \/>\nAlmost over this room<br \/>\nthe sun is gliding.<br \/>\n<em>Look at your face<\/em>, you say,<br \/>\nholding your own close to me<br \/>\nto make a mirror.<br \/>\nHow calm you are. And the burning wheel<br \/>\npasses gently over us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gl\u00fcck\u2019s death marks a line break, but not a full stop, to a timeless voice in the art of poetry. It\u2019s a voice that resonates with the wonder and grief of ancients like Sappho and moderns like Dickinson\u2014in other words, like Louise Gl\u00fcck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Srikanth Reddy is the poetry editor of<\/em> The Paris Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGl\u00fcck\u2019s death marks a line break, but not a full stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[67827,9801],"class_list":["post-165790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam","tag-featured","tag-louise-gluck"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Remembrance of Louise Gl\u00fcck by Srikanth 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