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Louise Glück: Faithful and virtuous night (2014)

Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 …

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It has come to seem
there are no perfect endings.
Indeed, there are infinite endings.
Or perhaps once one begins,
there are only endings.


Glück has that rare ability that mostly poets seem to possess; a universal pause button that allows for single moments to stretch out forever - infinite exactly because they are so finite, meaningful exactly because they pass and you take something of them with you, whether correctly remembered or not, on your journey towards the horizon.