书籍介绍
The First Four Books of Poems collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for The WildIris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. In Firstborn, The House on MarshlandWand, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which wonthe National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of apoet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth.
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I open my eyes; you are watching me.
Almost over this room
the sun is gliding.
Look at your face, you say,
holding your own close me
to make a mirror.
How calm you are. And the burning wheel
passes gently over us.
格吕克和辛波斯卡的不同在于，后者三十几岁写出来的《呼唤雪人》《盐》就已经是其后所有作品的模型了，拿禅宗的话讲，那时候的辛波斯卡就已经"开悟"了，她自己也知道，所以字里行间都是乐观的基调。(从《呼唤雪人》到《够了》，十一本诗集其实就是一本）而格吕克的每一个时期每一本诗集都不一样，题材，情绪，基调，她始终在探索中，即使最新的《冬日食谱》，面对死亡，也依旧不是绝对的洒脱。这种真实反而是非常可贵的，或许她是不自知的"证悟"。最早的四本，我喜欢的顺序是：沼泽地上的房子>下降图像>头生子>阿喀琉斯的胜利。
比Meadowlands难了很多，尤其是前半本中意象和具体情境的描述都明显更多，用了不少难词，不少诗歌看不太懂。这本出版好像是在Meadowlands之前，可能是后来有意调整让作品围绕一个或少数几个突出的意象而非众多纷杂的意象构筑，不仅便于读者理解，而且结构也更紧密匀称。主题上依然是以对家庭、人际关系、人生的探讨为主。个别句子长短分配很有意思，如Marathon里 1 Last Letter中的“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to / pray. ”和“turning slowly at the bathroom mirror, naked, looking for a/ sign ”
比较喜欢 Descending Figure, 但整体并未很有感觉。第一本与之后很不同，但后三本常常有一种类似的模式……
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