A Village Life

Louise Glück · 2009 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Long-lined poems of an unnamed Mediterranean village, with its fountain, vineyards and market, trace the passing of seasons and of the people who live and die there. It marks a departure from the compressed manner of her earlier books. A lyric collection from the poet who won the Nobel Prize in 2020.

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