{"product_id":"the-wild-iris-isbn-9780880013345","title":"The Wild Iris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThis collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Louise Gluck is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual distinction of being neither 'confessional' nor 'intellectual' in the usual senses of those words, which are often thought to represent two camps in the life of poetry. . . . What a strange book \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e is, appearing in this fin-de-siecle, written in the language of flowers. It Is a lieder cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHelen Vendler, The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are a few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Gluck ranks at the top of the list. Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Biespiel, Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887441277157,"sku":"NP9780880013345","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780880013345.jpg?v=1730226122","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-wild-iris-isbn-9780880013345","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}