Meadowlands - by Louise Gluck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Writing with precision of language and imagery, clarity of sensation, and supreme poetic self-confidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Wild Iris" skillfully interweaves events from the dissolution of a modern marriage with scenes from the "Odyssey" to create this remarkable collection of 46 poignant and combative poems.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</strong></p><p><strong>In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of <em>The Odyssey.</em></strong></p><p>Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, <em>Meadowlands </em>explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of <em>The Odyssey: </em>the unanswerable/affliction of the human heart: how to divide/the world's beauty into acceptable/and unacceptable loves.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of <em>The Odyssey.</em> Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. Through these classical figures, <em>Meadowlands</em> explores such timeless themes as the endless negotiation of family life, the cruelty that intimacy enables, and the frustrating trivia of the everyday. Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of <em>The Odyssey: </em> the unanswerable/affliction of the human heart: how to divide/the world's beauty into acceptable/and unacceptable loves.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[Gluck's] most ambitious and compelling book. <em>Meadowlands</em> suggests that its much-honored author is not willing to take her own achievement for granted, and the result is a poetry more stringently dissatisfied and beautiful than ever before.--<strong><em>The Yale Review</em></strong><br><br>Although Gluck is still in the middle of her career, it's clear that she is one of those poets--like Yeats, for example, and unlike Stevens--whose writing is provoked by their unfolding temporal life. . . . For more than a decade, Gluck has been writing books of poems that are meant to be encountered like novels, and has been looking into the difficult problem of finding a structure whereby an essentially lyric gift can be adapted to epic and unifying ambitions. <em>Meadowlands</em> gives us her most elaborate and satisfying solution.--<strong><em>The New Yorker</em></strong><br>
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