Glück, Louise - Bruce Bond (essay date 1991)
Bruce Bond (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "The Unfinished Child: Contradictory Desire in Glück's Ararat," in New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fall, 1991, pp. 216-23.
[In the following review, Bond critiques Glück's fifth book, noting a shift in her use of mythology that illuminates the process through which myth achieves meaning; he concludes that these poems about personal and family history inform the notion of intimacy as crucial to the creative processes of mythology and of poetry.]
Louise Glück's most recent book, Ararat, marks a new and sustained intimacy in her work, the persona of her poems returning to a personally inscribed past, a family circle, so as to offer, more than her other collections, the sense of a narrative whole. But the narrative comes to us in fragments, often jagged and self-contradictory, having a dissonant lyric intensity unsuited to the more modulated pacing of longer...
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