Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014526ISBN:0880014520
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Edition: Stated First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: The Ecco Press, New Jersey
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880015066ISBN:0880015063
Description: Fine. No Dustjacket. Very clean bright softcover book with illustrated cover. No chipping, creasing or wear. Binding is tight, pages and edges are clean and bright. Clean endpapers; no names, writing or marks. 61 pgs. By Pulitzer Prize winning poet Louise Gluck. 8vo. Poetry. read more
Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing
Binding: Hardcover.
Publisher: Ecco, NY
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014526ISBN:0880014520
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. The book condition is Fine. The dust jacket is Fine. Author is winner of The Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, The National Book Critics Circle Award, The Boston Globe Literary Press Award, The Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Awards and the William Carlos Williams Award. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780880014526ISBN:0880014520
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Edition: 2nd printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press, New York
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014526ISBN:0880014520
Description: Fine in a fine dustjacket. Hardcover-A sequence of poems interweaving the end of a marriage with the story of Odysseus and Penelope. After receiving many other awards and honors during her career, Gluck was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 2001. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperTrade, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780880014526ISBN:0880014520
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 1997-05-01
ISBN-13:9780880015066ISBN:0880015063
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Date Published: 16/07/1997
ISBN-13:9780880015066ISBN:0880015063
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"Not so much. I love the Odyssey and I love Gluck, but somehow this collection fell flat. The most powerful poems were from Telemachus' perspective. But where does Telemachus fit in to the weaving of the couples now and then? Do we ever hear something from the modern day children's perspective? The snappy bickering between the modern couple doesn't ultimately seem to echo between Penelope and Odysseus. What do the "meadowlands" relate to in the ancient, mythic world? Elysian fields??? This collection never came together for me. I realize that it might be too cutesy or overdone if everything had an overt reflection, but I need a few handholds to keep me going."
"I'm not going to do this book justice, because of the way it's written, but I'm going to try.
Basically, this is a poem cycle based on the relationship between Penelope and Odysseus from The Odyssey, except it's a relationship placed in modern times which refers to events that happened about a decade ago. This is a post-Odyssey recollection, but the poems move around in time and perspective (some poems shift back and forth between Penelope and Odysseus); some of the funniest, in fact, are from the point of view of Telemachus.
The poems themselves are well-crafted and original, and they vary in length from just a couple lines to a couple pages. Lines take advantage of subtle poetic sound devices and break at perfect spots. And even though the poems concern fictional characters, one can imagine anyone having the same thoughts and discussions that Penelope and Odysseus have.
This imaginative update is fascinating, but would be best understood by those who know The Odyssey; otherwise, the character shifts and event references may not always make sense."
"Gluck blends the Greek myth of Odysseus (a waiting Penelope, what happens once Odysseus returns) with a contemporary disintegrating marriage, varying narrators.
Telemachus tells us a couple of things about his parents ("sometimes inclining to/ _husband and wife,_ other times/ to _opposing forces_"), and we also hear straight dialogue between the contemporary couple (One person says, "One thing I've always hated/ about you: I hate that you refuse/ to have people at the house. Flaubert/ had more friends and Flaubert/ was a recluse." The other replies: "Flaubert was crazy: he lived/ with his mother.") The few short objective "parables" seem the weakest form.
I liked "The Wild Iris" better as a collection, and it employed the same technique of varying speakers though retaining the same tone/style from poem to poem."
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