Louise Glück: 8 Poems from “The Wild Iris”

Published: Nov. 13, 2021, 5 a.m.

A reading of eight poems from Louise Glück's 1992 collection, The Wild Iris; followed by readings made last March, of six poems from her 1990 book, Ararat. Buy Ararat or The Wild Iris individually, or in Glück's Collected Poems 1962-2012

from The Wild Iris

  • Matins ("Forgive me if I say I love you")
  • Retreating Wind
  • The Garden
  • Field Flowers
  • Matins ("Not the sun merely but the earth")
  • Vespers ("More than you love me, very possibly")
  • September Twilight
  • The White Lilies

from Ararat

  • Lost Love
  • Appearances
  • Brown Circle
  • Child Crying Out
  • Celestial Music
  • First Memory

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