LOUISE GLÜCK –A Mosaic of Alterities
The memory of otherness in Louise Glück's poetry is a sum of fervors; these memories are fueled by family trauma ‒ a kind of winter climate ‒, by religion and mythology. The unreality of the concreteness takes place in notes of playful introspection, vibrating within a new being, awakened in a strange survival. In her poetry, the stages of femininity always return, in one form or another, as a kind of traumatic disguise; they contain both the anecdotal (and the organic mixture), and the banal with parodic abstractions. Louise Glück's visionarism and livresque-sensorial experiments converge in a triple motherhood: traumatic, oneiric and archetypal. Favoring ancillary answers from "high" answers, Louise Glück breaks the commandments like Psyche: she gazes at what no one sees anymore.
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