Description
Set over the course of a summer in a Vermont garden, this Pulitzer Prize–winning collection gives voice to flowers, a gardener, and an omniscient God as they observe and question one another. Through these distinct yet interwoven speakers, Louise Glück explores mortality, rebirth, love, faith, suffering, and the uneasy relationship between human beings and the natural world. Her precise, spare, and haunting language transforms the garden into an archetypal landscape where cycles of growth and decay echo the deepest human struggles. Read as a sustained poetic conversation, the collection moves toward a mysterious, hard-won sense of acceptance and renewal.
Available Editions
paperback
Ecco Press
Published Jan 1, 1992
63 pages
ISBN: 9780880012812
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Details
First Published
1992
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Wild Iris by Louise Glück.