Description
A hauntingly austere collection, this volume explores grief, familial loss, and the enduring presence of the dead in the lives of those who remain. Across poems marked by twilight landscapes, childhood memories, illness, and winter’s stark imagery, the speaker confronts the silence of a deceased sister and the impossibility of fully recovering or understanding the past. Louise Glück’s spare, lucid diction gives these intensely personal experiences a universal resonance, revealing mourning as both dislocation and an ongoing form of connection. Coldly beautiful and emotionally precise, the collection examines memory, absence, vulnerability, and the fragile boundaries between the living and the dead.
Available Editions
paperback
Ecco Press
Published Jan 1, 1980
48 pages
ISBN: 9780912946719
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Details
First Published
1980
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Descending Figure by Louise Glück.