Description
Set in an unnamed rural community, this collection of poems traces the intimate dramas, quiet routines, and private reckonings of villagers moving through love, loss, desire, work, and memory. Louise Glück shifts among distinct voices and perspectives—mothers and daughters, lovers and outsiders, solitary figures and observers—to reveal the tensions beneath ordinary encounters. With its spare, lucid language and haunting attention to mortality, nature, and human isolation, the book transforms village life into a profound meditation on what connects and divides us.
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paperback
Carcanet Press, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2010
96 pages
ISBN: 9781847770592
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Details
First Published
2009
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for A Village Life by Louise Glück.