61. The Mystery By Louise Gluck Study Guide The Mystery by louise gluck Study Guide. Home › Premium Study Guides › The Mystery. The Mystery by louise gluck Jump to Introduction http://www.bookrags.com/guides/mystery/

The Mystery by Louise Gluck Study Guide Literature Study Guides Essays Book Notes Search book notes, essays, study guides, and e-books Study Guide Navigation Download the PDF Home Premium Study Guides The Mystery by Louise Gluck Jump to: Introduction Author Biography Poem Text Summary and Analysis Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Media Adaptations Topics for Further Study What Do I Read Next? Bibliography Download the PDF Introduction To appreciate fully the meaning of and drive behind Louise Glück’s “The Mystery,” it is helpful to read the entire collection, Vita Nova , in which this poem is included. Published in 1999, Vita Nova , which translates into “new life,” explores the poet’s emergence from the despair and loneliness that plagued her for years after her husband left her. Her previous collection, Meadowlands (1996), recounted the deterioration of her marriage and Vita Nova picks up where that book left off: Glück’s life after divorce, drawing from a mixture of allusions to distraught lovers in Greek mythology and to her own plight as a rejected, sometimes self-pitying, woman. But “The Mystery” can be read and enjoyed as a single poem as well, and it stands on its own as an uplifting testimony to spiritual, emotional, and intellectual rebirth. Perhaps uncharacteristically for Glück, this poem’s extended metaphor is based on mystery writer Rex Stout’s series of novels and short stories featuring the renowned detective Nero Wolfe. The rotund, sedentary, and brilliant detective is known for his love of food and orchids as much as his uncanny knack for solving crimes. Glück uses the idea of mystery to describe her rise from the bitter depths of sadness and abandonment, likening the process to one of a person who has emerged from the dark to become “a creature of light.” In essence, she is able to find resolution for at least some of her emotional pain and in doing so she has “acquired in some measure / the genius of the master”—in this case, Nero Wolfe.

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64. Lackey's Class Links: Poet Laureate Louise Gluck Sunday, May 09, 2004. Poet Laureate louise gluck. Last Fall louise gluck was named US Poet Laureate. She is a member of the Academy http://www.bright.net/~dlackey/2004/05/poet-laureate-louise-gluck.html

Lackey's Class Links Links to class projects for Mr. Lackey's English classes at Strongsville H.S. Sunday, May 09, 2004 Poet Laureate Louise Gluck Last Fall Louise Gluck was named U.S. Poet Laureate . She is a member of the Academy of American Poets ; her poems can be found here and here posted by d.lackey @ 8:13 PM Previous Posts Thruxton Journalistic Style Sheet On Women Weird Stuff ... Earth Day 2004 It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. - William Carlos Williams. SHS Summer Reading dlackey.org U.S. Library of Congress American Memory ... Mail to D.Lackey

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Speaker Pull Down Menu Russell Banks A. S. Byatt Michael Chabon Billy Collins Bernard Cooper Robert Creeley Michael Cunningham Anne Fadiman Jonathan Franzen Ira Glass Terry Gross Robert Hass Seamus Heaney Jane Hirshfield Tony Kushner Anne Lamott Barry Lopez Armistead Maupin Frances Mayes W.S. Merwin Anchee Min Kathleen Norris Naomi Shihab Nye Michael Ondaatje Robert Pinsky David Rakoff Adrienne Rich Frank Rich Luis Rodriguez Mark Salzman Robert Sapolsky Orville Schell Alice Sebold David Sedaris Maurice Sendak Art Spiegelman Amy Tan Sarah Vowell Terry Tempest Williams Photo Credit : Sigrid Estrada Links of Interest Library of Congress Academy of American Poets Modern American Poetry APR Article ... LG and Poetry Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004) The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker Meadowlands The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and

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68. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck To Read At The Library Of Congress Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry louise gluck will bring the 20032004 literary season to a close with a reading of her work at 645 pm on Tuesday, May 4, in http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2004/04-094.html

The Library of Congress The Library Today News All Library of Congress Pages Public Affairs Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC tel (202) 707-2905 fax (202) 707-9199 e-mail pao@loc.gov April 26, 2004 Press Contact: Bibi Martí, (202) 707-1639 Public Contact: Poetry and Literature Center (202) 707-5394 or (202) 707-5395, Request ADA accommodations five days in advance at (202) 707-6362 or ADA@loc.gov Poet Laureate Louise Gluck to Read at the Library of Congress Glück's Reading Will Close 2003-2004 Literary Season Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Louise Gluck will bring the 2003-2004 literary season to a close with a reading of her work at 6:45 p.m. on Tuesday, May 4 , in the sixth floor Montpelier Room of the Library’s James Madison Memorial Building, 101 Independence Avenue S.E., Washington, D.C. This free event is open to the public and no reservations are required. Louise Gluck is the author of nine books of poetry, including "The Seven Ages" (Ecco Press, 2001); "Vita Nova" (1999), which was awarded the New Yorker magazine’s Book Award in Poetry; "Meadowlands" (1996); "The Wild Iris" (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award; "Ararat" (1990), which received the Library of Congress’ Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, and "The Triumph of Achilles" (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Kane Award. Gluck has also published a collection of essays, "Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry" (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. This fall, Sarabande Books will publish "October," a new, six-part poem, in chapbook form.

69. Spotlight On Louise Gluck Spotlight on louise gluck, Featured Poetry. by Kara Hoppe. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate http://www.realchangenews.org/pastissuesupgrade/2003_12_24/current/poetry/gluck.

Spotlight on Louise Gluck Featured Poetry by Kara Hoppe "I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence." -Louise Gluck Louise Gluck is professor at Williams College in Massachusetts and the newly appointed Poet Laureate of the United States. Weaving themes of loss, isolation, and abandonment into each poem, she examines paradox and transformation from a uniquely women's perspective. With both sorrow and humor, she provides the reader with sincere empathy and an intuitive understanding of human existence. Gluck selected these poems especially for the October 16 issue of

70. Louise Gluck unnamed god. The reader shares the p Written by louise gluck Published by Ecco (January 1994) ISBN 0880013346 Price $14.00. First http://mathematicsbooks.org/search_Louise_Gluck/searchBy_Author.html

Home Search High Volume Orders Links ... Philosophy of Mathematics Additional Subjects William Neill David P. Blecher Howard W. Eves Saul A. Kripke ... Mike Allen Featured Books The Cuckoo Streckfus' first book is a marvel: a poetry collection that evidences new life for the narrative poem, for the incorporation of fairy tale, myth and history in mysterious and moving ways. Written by Peter Streckfus Louise Gluck Published by Yale Univ Pr (April 2004) ISBN 0300102720 Price $13.00 October Deep,captivating and provoking.A gigantic landscape painted with meticulously picked sage words.The poet laurate of the U.S.should not be kept awaiting for Nobel until 2013 ... Written by Louise Gl¼ck Published by Sarabande Books (April 2004) ISBN 1932511008 Price $8.95 The Seven Ages Salient in this book is Louise Gluck's absolute brilliant mastery of every aspect of poetry. She said somewhere that this was her weirdest book yet. It's not among the most experimental poetry published today; it's unique great Louise Gluck. Every word in every poem feels like a monumental perfection.I hope this review has been helpful to you. Written by Louise Gluck Published by Ecco (April 2001) ISBN 0060185260 Price $23.00

71. EphBlog: Looks Like Louise Gluck Will February 05, 2004. Looks like louise gluck will. Looks like louise gluck will be leaving Williams. Current US Poet Laureate and Pulitzer http://www.ephblog.com/archives/000050.html

Inside Links About EphBlog About the Authors New Author Sign Up Eph Blogroll ... Quote Wall Eph Links Williams College Williams Students Online (WSO) Williams Record Search EphBlog Recent Entries Unask the Question A Trip to the Courthouse Merit Scholarships Override Fails ... Wiki! Recent Comments Archives May 2004 (36) April 2004 (81) March 2004 (77) February 2004 (48) ... January 2004 (49) Donate If you want to donate money via PayPal to help keep this site alive, then please do so here and thank you. Powered by Movable Type 2.661 Hosted on Pair Networks var site="s18EphBlog" Main February 05, 2004 Looks like Louise Gluck will Looks like Louise Gluck will be leaving Williams Current U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Louise Gluck has been tapped to teach poetry in the Yale English Department for a five-year renewable term beginning this fall, Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead said Wednesday evening. Comments: 1) I would love to know the inside scoop on how good a teacher Gluck was and how much of a loss this represents for future Williams students. 2) Live by the star, die by the star. The college, rightly, made a

72. EphBlog: Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize Winner louise gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner. louise gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner and senior lecturer in English, has been named the country s poet laureate. http://www.ephblog.com/archives/000245.html

Inside Links About EphBlog About the Authors New Author Sign Up Eph Blogroll ... Quote Wall Eph Links Williams College Williams Students Online (WSO) Williams Record Search EphBlog Recent Entries Unask the Question A Trip to the Courthouse Merit Scholarships Override Fails ... Wiki! Recent Comments Archives May 2004 (36) April 2004 (81) March 2004 (77) February 2004 (48) ... January 2004 (49) Donate If you want to donate money via PayPal to help keep this site alive, then please do so here and thank you. Powered by Movable Type 2.661 Hosted on Pair Networks var site="s18EphBlog" Main August 29, 2003 Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Gluck, Pulitzer Prize winner and senior lecturer in English, has been named the country's poet laureate. Here is the article in the NYT. The college's announcement notes that: Louise Glück has taught at Williams College since 1983 and teaches courses in the writing of poetry and in contemporary poetry as the Margaret Bundy Scott Senior Lecturer in English. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Comments: 1) Why isn't Gluck a professor, as opposed to a lecturer? Perhaps there is no meaning to the difference in this case; perhaps, in the eyes of the English department, you need a Ph.D. to get the title of professor; perhaps it is just a function of her arrangement with the COllege.

73. The Seven Ages, Louise Gluck - HarperCollins The Seven Ages. by louise gluck. Email this page to a friend. louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. http://www.harpercollins.com/catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060185260

74. Overflow » Louise Gluck louise gluck. louise gluck (pronouced glick) is our new Poet Laureate, taking over the reins (miniregistration required) from Billy Collins. http://crossimpact.net/archives/2003/09/02/louise-gluck/

@import url( /cross.css ); Overflow Tuesday, September 2, 2003 Louise Gluck Louise Gluck (pronouced glick) is our new Poet Laureate, taking over the reins Random Walks Celestial Music I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally talks to God. She thinks someone listens in heaven. Brave too, able to face unpleasantness. We found a caterpillar dying in the dirt, greedy ants crawling over it. But timid also, quick to shut my eyes. Whereas my friend was able to watch, to let events play out According to nature. For my sake she intervened Brushing a few ants off the torn thing, and set it down Across the road. My friend says I shut my eyes to God, that nothing else explains Buries her head in the pillow So as not to see, the child who tells herself That light causes sadness- My friend is like the mother. Patient, urging me To wake up an adult like herself, a courageous person- Look up, she says. When I look up, nothing. Only clouds, snow, a white business in the trees

75. Reunion By Louise Gluck poem, A weekly poem, read by the author. Reunion By louise gluck Posted Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2001, at 1200 AM PT It is discovered http://slate.msn.com/id/96059/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money document.write('') Web Search: logoImg("http://sc.msn.com"); Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search poem A weekly poem, read by the author. Reunion By Louise Gluck Posted Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2001, at 12:00 AM PT It is discovered, after twenty years, they like each other, despite enormous differences (one a psychiatrist, one a city official), differences that could have been, that were, predicted: differences in tastes, in inclinations, and, now, in wealth (the one literary, the one entirely practical and yet deliciously wry; the two wives cordial and mutually curious.) And this discovery is, also, discovery of the self, of new capacities: they are, in this conversation, like the great sages, the philosophers they used to read (never together), men of worldly accomplishment and wisdom, speaking with all the charm and ebullience and eager openness for which youth is so unjustly famous. And to these have been added a broad tolerance and generosity, a movement away from any contempt or wariness. It is a pleasure, now, to speak of the ways in which

76. Orfeo By Louise Gluck poem, A weekly poem, read by the author. Orfeo By louise gluck Posted Thursday, Jan. 21, 1999, at 1230 AM PT To hear the poet read Orfeo, click here. http://slate.msn.com/id/13110/

MSN Home My MSN Hotmail Shopping ... Money document.write('') Web Search: logoImg("http://sc.msn.com"); Print E-mail Discuss Alerts ... About Us Search Slate Advanced Search poem A weekly poem, read by the author. Orfeo By Louise Gluck Posted Thursday, Jan. 21, 1999, at 12:30 AM PT To hear the poet read "Orfeo," click here "J'ai perdu mon Eurydice ..." I have lost my Eurydice, I have lost my lover, and suddenly I am speaking French and it seems to me I have never been in better voice; it seems these songs are songs of a high order. And it seems one is somehow expected to apologize for being an artist, as though it were not entirely human to notice these fine points. And who knows, perhaps the gods never spoke to me in Dis, never singled me out, perhaps it was all illusion. O Eurydice, you who married me for my singing, why do you turn on me, wanting human comfort? Who knows what you'll tell the Furies when you see them again. Tell them I have lost my beloved; I am completely alone now. Tell them there is no music like this without real grief.

77. Louise Gluck: Cottonmouth Country the polluted air. Birth, not death, is the hard loss. I know. I also left a skin there. louise Glück, The Young American Poets. http://www.breakoutofthebox.com/cottonmouth.htm

Out of the Box Coaching and WORKING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM , Mary R. Bast, Ph.D. Cottonmouth Country Fish bones walked the waves off Hatteras And there were other signs That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us By land: among the pines An uncurled cottonmouth that rolled on moss Reared in the polluted air. Birth, not death, is the hard loss. I know. I also left a skin there. Louise Glück The Young American Poets More Transformation Poems

78. Louise Gluck: Unwritten Law of those years. And you in your wisdom and cruelty gradually taught me the meaninglessness of that term. louise Glück, Vita Nova. http://www.breakoutofthebox.com/unwrittenlaw.htm

Out of the Box Coaching and WORKING WITH THE ENNEAGRAM , Mary R. Bast, Ph.D. Eight: Unwritten Law Interesting how we fall in love: In my case, absolutely. Absolutely, and, alas, often so it was in my youth. And always with rather boyish men unformed, sullen, or shyly kicking the dead leaves: in the manner of Balanchine. Nor did I see them as versions of the same thing. I, with my inflexible Platonism, my fierce seeing of only one thing at a time: I ruled against the indefinite article. And yet, the mistakes of my youth made me hopeless, because they repeated themselves, as is commonly true. But in you I felt something beyond the archetype a true expansiveness, a buoyance and love of the earth utterly alien to my nature. To my credit, I blessed my good fortune in you. Blessed it absolutely, in the manner of those years. And you in your wisdom and cruelty gradually taught me the meaninglessness of that term. Louise Glück Vita Nova More Eight Poems More Enneagram Poems Site Search x

79. Broadside Of "Eros" By Louise Gluck - Vehicule Press' Signal Editions You will need Adobe Acrobat, or other PDF reader. Eros by louise gluck .This image is copyrighted. Signal International Broadside Series, 2004. http://www.vehiculepress.com/broadgluck.html

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80. One Good Bumblebee: I Think Louise Gluck Sucks, Sorry What s so great about louise gluck? Someone please explain the appeal. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference I think louise gluck Sucks, sorry http://openbook.typepad.com/katey/2004/01/i_think_louise_.html

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