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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, by Louise Glück | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous. 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.
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 ...
"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.
Poems. End of Summer. By Louise Glück. After all things occurred to me, the void occurred to me. There is a limit to the pleasure I had in form—. I am not like you in this, I have no release in another body, I have no need of shelter outside myself—. My poor inspired creation, you are distractions, finally, mere curtailment; you are too ...
