Recently we posted Louise Gluck’s poem Lamium and we’ve also posted excerpts from other poems in her collection The Wild Iris. She’s just won the Nobel Prize for Literature “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
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Louise Gluck: The Wild Iris
Not the sun merely, but the earth
itself shines, white fire
leaping from the showy mountains
and the flat road
shimmering in early morning