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A Summer Garden. By Louise Glück. 1. Several weeks ago I discovered a photograph of my mother. sitting in the sun, her face flushed as with achievement or triumph. The sun was shining. The dogs. were sleeping at her feet where time was also sleeping, calm and unmoving as in all photographs.
Summer by Louise Gluck - Meaning, Themes, Analysis and Literary Devices - American Poems. Remember the days of our first happiness, how strong we were, how dazed by passion, lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed, sleeping there, eating there too: it was summer, it seemed everything had ripened. at once.
Summer (audio only) Click the icon above to listen to this audio poem. From The Triumph of Achilles, published by The Ecco Press, 1985. The author of numerous collections of poetry, Louise Glück is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, and twas the Library of Congress’s ...
Louise Glück. Summer. Remember the days of our first happiness, how strong we were, how dazed by passion, lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed, sleeping there, eating there too: it was summer, it seemed everything had ripened. at once. And so hot we lay completely uncovered. Sometimes the wind rose; a willow brushed the window.
Louise Glück (United States of America, 1943) Robert Hass has called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing,” and her poetry is noted for its technical precision, sensitivity and insight into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death.
Summer by Louise Gluck. Remember the days of our first happiness, how strong we were, how dazed by passion, lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed, sleeping there, eating there too: it was summer, it seemed everything had ripened. at once. And so hot we lay completely uncovered.
Summary. "A Summer Garden" is the twenty-third and penultimate poem in Louise Glück's Faithful and Virtuous Night. It follows a speaker who finds an old photograph of their mother and finds their self awash in a flood of memories and nostalgia surrounding the image. The speaker engages deeply with the photo, as well as with the copy of Death ...
