Louise Glück
Louise Glück
Reading Date: Thursday, March 16, 1978
- Introduction
- "The Blind Girl"
- "Fear of Birth"
- "The Garden"
- "Fear of Love"
- "Origins"
- "Fear of Burial"
- "Portland, 1968"
- "The Wanderer"
- "The Sick Child"
- "For My Sister"
- "Portrait"
- "Illuminations"
- "The Drowned Children"
- "The Dream of Mourning"
- "Aubade"
- "The Mirror"
- "For John"
- "Thanksgiving"
- "Lamentations"
Introduction-131
by Lois Shelton
"The Blind Girl"-132
Glück, Louise. "The Blind Girl." The New Yorker. 28 March 1977: 111. Print.
"Fear of Birth"-133
Glück, Louise. The Garden. New York: Antaeus, 1976.
"The Garden"-134
Glück, Louise. The Garden. New York: Antaeus, 1976.
"Fear of Love"-135
Glück, Louise. The Garden. New York: Antaeus, 1976.
"Origins"-136
Glück, Louise. The Garden. New York: Antaeus, 1976.
"Fear of Burial"-137
Glück, Louise. The Garden. New York: Antaeus, 1976.
"Portland, 1968"-138
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"The Wanderer"-139
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"The Sick Child"-140
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"For My Sister"-141
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"Portrait"-142
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"Illuminations"-143
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"The Drowned Children"-144
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"The Dream of Mourning"-145
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"Aubade"-146
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"The Mirror"-147
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"For John"-148
uncollected, unpublished
"Thanksgiving"-149
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
"Lamentations"-150
Glück, Louise. Descending Figure. New York: Ecco, 1980.
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Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
In this, Louise Glück's first performance at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, she opens with some poems from her first book, The Garden, and then reads from the manuscript of her book Descending Figure, which would be published two years later.
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