Book World: Louise Gluck’s ‘Poems 1962-2012’ - The Washington Post

Book World: Louise Gluck’s ‘Poems 1962-2012’ - The Washington Post:

"Six hundred and thirty-four pages, just shy of three pounds: a life in letters. No, more essential than that: Louise Gluck’s “Poems 1962-2012” is weighted with the dark matter of the human universe, invisible in our everyday interactions but at the core of our conscious experience. Though Gluck lays bare the most intimate moments of longing and loss, these poems are not what we think of as confessional. They are more like the record of a shipwreck survivor trying to come to terms with the strain of isolation and the stark horizon of her island. Language is the castaway’s only refuge."