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• 心に響く著者の声

  アメリカのピュ－リツア賞を１９９３年に受賞した詩集。この作品の中では「庭」のイメージがキー。人間の感情が植物に絡み合っていく描写を、音楽のような言葉の響きをもって著者は綴っている。読み進めていくと、なんとも言えない厳かな気持ちになる。著者の声が心の奥底にしみ込んでくる。

• Love her and her poems

• Schönes kleines Buch mit den Gedichten von Louise Glück

• Beautiful.

• All good

• This is a collection of poems which I would recommend to anyone and everyone. Each poem is written in everyday English like a monologue. No fancy vocabulary. But the simplicity of poem is superficial. Louise is able to convey complex ideas of pain, hope, separation and death in a manner which hits you hard. For example: Lamium (page 5) "The sun hardly touches me......Living things don't all require light in the same degree. Some of us make our own light: a silver leaf like a path no one can use, a shallow lake of silver in the darkness under the great maples." I almost cried when I read the above for the first time. Lamium is a flowering plant which grows best in shade and has leaves with silver variegation. That the poet thought of that as a metaphor for the struggle that many of us face to simply survive pain and sadness is an invaluable and unique perspective. She deserves every award including the Nobel. The book itself is a decent paperback with readable clear font and no footnotes or illustrations. You probably don't need any, it fires your imagination like anything.

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