Description
This debut poetry collection presents a stark, technically controlled vision of emotional and existential life, where failed love, troubled family relationships, isolation, and the pain of becoming are rendered with unsparing clarity. Across portraits of disaffected figures and poems rooted in memory, landscape, season, and classical imagery, the speaker repeatedly questions the apparent goodness of birth, intimacy, hope, and renewal. The work’s cool, compressed language and deliberate opacity transform private anguish into unsettling, broadly resonant meditations on identity and loss. Already evident is the distinctive sensibility that would develop into one of modern poetry’s most influential bodies of work.
Available Editions
paperback
Anvil Press Poetry
Published Jan 1, 1969
53 pages
ISBN: 0900977051
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Details
First Published
1968
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Firstborn by Louise Glück.