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That which you call death, the queens remember in this episode that revisits The Wild Iris, Louise Glück's Pulitzer-Prize winning volume from 1992.
Please Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
While the recording released by the Academy of American Poets of Glück reading from The Wild Iris and other work can be purchased online, you can also hear many of these poems read on SoundCloud here.
Much of our information about Glück's process comes from this interview with the poet Devin Becker, who was also her former student.
Read Richie Hofmann's remembrance here.
Some of the poems from The Wild Iris that we mention (and links to read them) are:
Witchgrass
The Red Poppy
Clear Morning
The Garden
Vespers
Retreating Light
The White Lilies, which you can hear read by Glück here.
We also mention the poem "Purple Bathing Suit" from Meadowlands, the book which follows The Wild Iris.
Louise' Glücks astrological chart is here. (Taurus sun, Leo rising, Scorpio moon.)
Watch interviews with Glück:
1982, for Kalliope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAB-JqABvq8
2004, at Smith College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0nlVYZ39A
2012, Academy of Achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rpGy8XRzU
2016, with Peter Streckfus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeoaLNGy_Ms
2020, for NYPL with Colm Tóibín, on writing The Wild Iris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQGM_KhHQ
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That which you call death, the queens remember in this episode that revisits The Wild Iris, Louise Glück's Pulitzer-Prize winning volume from 1992.
Please Support Breaking Form!
Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.
Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. And BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press.
James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.
Show Notes:
While the recording released by the Academy of American Poets of Glück reading from The Wild Iris and other work can be purchased online, you can also hear many of these poems read on SoundCloud here.
Much of our information about Glück's process comes from this interview with the poet Devin Becker, who was also her former student.
Read Richie Hofmann's remembrance here.
Some of the poems from The Wild Iris that we mention (and links to read them) are:
Witchgrass
The Red Poppy
Clear Morning
The Garden
Vespers
Retreating Light
The White Lilies, which you can hear read by Glück here.
We also mention the poem "Purple Bathing Suit" from Meadowlands, the book which follows The Wild Iris.
Louise' Glücks astrological chart is here. (Taurus sun, Leo rising, Scorpio moon.)
Watch interviews with Glück:
1982, for Kalliope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAB-JqABvq8
2004, at Smith College: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw0nlVYZ39A
2012, Academy of Achievement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rpGy8XRzU
2016, with Peter Streckfus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeoaLNGy_Ms
2020, for NYPL with Colm Tóibín, on writing The Wild Iris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3kQGM_KhHQ

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