Louise Glück

1943 - / Female / American
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Penelope's songLittle soul, little perpetually undressed one, / Do now as I bid you, climb / The shelf-like branches of the spruce tree;
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PoemIn the early evening, a now, as man is bending / over his writing table. / Slowly he lifts his head; a woman
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PortraitA child draws the outline of a body. / She draws what she can, but it is white all through, / she cannot fill in what she knows is there.
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Retreating WindWhen I made you, I loved you. / Now I pity you. / I gave you all you needed:
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SaintsIn our family, there were two saints, / my aunt and my grandmother. / But their lives were different.
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SirenI became a criminal when I fell in love. / Before that I was a waitress. / I didn't want to go to Chicago with you.
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SnowLate December: my father and I / are going to New York, to the circus. / He holds me
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SnowdropsDo you know what I was, how I lived? You know / what despair is; then / winter should have meaning for you.
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SummerRemember the days of our first happiness, / how strong we were, how dazed by passion, / lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed,
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The ButterflyLook, a butterfly. Did you make a wish? / You don't wish on butterflies. / You do so. Did you make one?
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