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October 16, 2023

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Thank you, David, for this tribute to the great Louise Gluck. Upon hearing of her death, I was shocked and plunged into sadness. There will be no more pure, austere, beautiful poems. With Averno and Faithful and Virtuous Night, my favorite, Louise Gluck reached the sublime.

That is a beautiful poem. And I doubt you'd have had as good a time co-editing with Brodsky, or Walcott, or Heaney - not to mention Yeats! Maybe T.S. Eliot would have let you have a crumpet while he poured the tea.

This is so moving to me. Thank you!

"the first shoots/like wings tearing the soil" = the human position in Gluck's extensive dialog with the Transcendent whom we'd rather were Immanent. (I always type an ant into transcendant before the computer changes it, perhaps my small offering to the dialog)
Thank you, David! for sharing the making of that Best.

Glück's poem is a valuable addition to the body of literature on grief and loss. It is a poem that will stay with me long after I have finished reading it.

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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