The Wild Iris [Audiobook] download free by Louise Gluck
- Listen audiobook: The Wild Iris
- Author: Louise Gluck
- Release date: 1996/11/23
- Publisher: ECCO PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780880013345
- Rating: 7.87 of 10
- Votes: 235
- Review by: Cristiano Perkins
- Review rating: 8.32 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/6
- Duration: 1H1M49S in 256 kbps (16 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG4, FLAC, AU, WAV, MP3, Apple Lossless, ATRAC (compression RAR, TAR.GZ, TBZ, JAR, XZ, 7Z, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 80
- Includes a PDF summary of 9 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 7M13S (1.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The Wild Iris was written during a ten-week period in the summer of 1991. Louise Cluck's first four collections consistently returned to the natural world, to the classical and biblical narratives that arose to explain the phenomena of this world, to provide meaning and to console. Ararat, her fifth book, offered a substitution for the received: a demotic, particularized myth of contemporary family. Now in The Wild Iris, her most important and accomplished collection to date, ecstatic imagination supplants both empiricism and tradition, creating an impassioned polyphonic exchange among the god who 'disclose[s]/virtually nothing', human beings who 'leave/signs of feeling/everywhere', and a garden where 'whatever/returns from oblivion returns/ to find a voice'. The poems of this sequence see beyond mortality, the bitter discovery on which individuality depends. 'To be one thing/is to be next to nothing', Cluck challenges the reader. 'Is it enough/only to look inward?' A major poet redefines her task-its thematic obsessions, its stylistic signature-with each volume. Visionary, shrewd, intuitive-and at once cyclical and apocalyptic-The Wild Iris is not a repudiation but a confirmation, an audacious feat of psychic ventriloquism, a fiercely original record of the spirit's obsession with, and awe of, earth.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Poetry By Individual Poets
- Download servers: Microsoft OneDrive, CmisSync, MEGA, FreakShare, Uploaded. Compressed in RAR, TAR.GZ, TBZ, JAR, XZ, 7Z, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.61 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x7.62mm
- Weight: 130g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Hopewell, United States
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