Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
by Louise Glück
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When I read this book aloud, it's beautiful. The sounds flow and I feel the melancholy and the joy and the hope and the despair of aging. I can't say that I understand all the poems, but the images will stay with me:
"...how merrily you stood on the balcony,
pelting me with foil-wrapped chocolates..."
"I could hear the clock ticking,
presumably alluding to the passage of time
while in fact annulling it."
"...We were sitting on our favorite bench
outside the common room, having
a glass of gin without ice.
Looked a lot like water, so the nurses
smiled at you as they passed,
pleased with how hydrated you were becoming."
"There is no one alive anymore
who remembers me as a baby."
Perhaps the title poem sums up this collection best:
"...The book show more contains
only recipes for winter, when life is hard. In spring,
anyone can make a fine meal." show less
"...how merrily you stood on the balcony,
pelting me with foil-wrapped chocolates..."
"I could hear the clock ticking,
presumably alluding to the passage of time
while in fact annulling it."
"...We were sitting on our favorite bench
outside the common room, having
a glass of gin without ice.
Looked a lot like water, so the nurses
smiled at you as they passed,
pleased with how hydrated you were becoming."
"There is no one alive anymore
who remembers me as a baby."
Perhaps the title poem sums up this collection best:
"...The book show more contains
only recipes for winter, when life is hard. In spring,
anyone can make a fine meal." show less
Winter, snow, and death. Facing reality. That pretty much covers it.
Loved "Autumn," in particular.
Winterrecepten van het collectief. Door: Louise Glück. Vertaling: Radna Fabias.
Winterrecepten lijkt quasi moeiteloos qua schrijven én vertalen tot stand gekomen maar wel loepzuiver, vol emotie én puur. Elk woord, elke zin, elk beeld is juist.
Fabias (die zelf ook een geweldige dichter is) vertaalde al eerder Averno van Glück; dat vond ik al heel goed. Maar Winterrecepten is nog veel beter. Soms vond ik het origineel mooier, soms de vertaling. Want ja, dat is het toffe aan deze bundels: je krijgt de Engelse en de Nederlandse versie. Zo kan je vergelijken. ;) Ik begrijp dat dit qua rechten niet altijd evident is maar van mij zou elke vertaalde bundel zo moeten zijn; dat maakt het zo veel boeiender en intenser om te lezen.
De taal, de show more stijl, de onderwerpen zijn alledaags én verheven tegelijk. Het raakte me op een manier die me soms aan de poëzie van Eileen Myles deed denken. Je wordt op een nonchalante (lijkt het wel) manier recht in je hart geraakt. Prachtig.
Ik hoop dat Radna tijd blijft vinden om te vertalen én eigen werk te maken, beide doet ze geweldig goed. En moge de Arbeiderspers al het werk van Glück zo prachtig blijven uitgeven. Fan! show less
Winterrecepten lijkt quasi moeiteloos qua schrijven én vertalen tot stand gekomen maar wel loepzuiver, vol emotie én puur. Elk woord, elke zin, elk beeld is juist.
Fabias (die zelf ook een geweldige dichter is) vertaalde al eerder Averno van Glück; dat vond ik al heel goed. Maar Winterrecepten is nog veel beter. Soms vond ik het origineel mooier, soms de vertaling. Want ja, dat is het toffe aan deze bundels: je krijgt de Engelse en de Nederlandse versie. Zo kan je vergelijken. ;) Ik begrijp dat dit qua rechten niet altijd evident is maar van mij zou elke vertaalde bundel zo moeten zijn; dat maakt het zo veel boeiender en intenser om te lezen.
De taal, de show more stijl, de onderwerpen zijn alledaags én verheven tegelijk. Het raakte me op een manier die me soms aan de poëzie van Eileen Myles deed denken. Je wordt op een nonchalante (lijkt het wel) manier recht in je hart geraakt. Prachtig.
Ik hoop dat Radna tijd blijft vinden om te vertalen én eigen werk te maken, beide doet ze geweldig goed. En moge de Arbeiderspers al het werk van Glück zo prachtig blijven uitgeven. Fan! show less
Apr 18, 2022Dutch
Poemario bilingüe que comeza coa historia dun amante despreciable e continúa con historias antigas, sobre o tempo a vida e a morte. A sinxeleza da obra de Glück sempre sorprende
Mar 29, 2024Galician
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Louise Elizabeth Gluck, 1943 - Louise Gluck was born April 22, 1943 in New York City, New York. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, both in New York State. She is best known for her award winning collection entitled "The Wild Iris". After graduation, Gluck began teaching poetry, accepting show more positions at various colleges and universities. In 1968, her first collection entitled "Firstborn" was published. Seven years later she published "The House on the Marshland", and in 1985, "The Triumph of Achilles" won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. In 1993, she was an editor of The Best American Poetry anthology. Her last appointment was as Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College. Louise Gluck is considered one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Known for her well-crafted use of verse and meter, she first garnered attention with "Firstborn", a collection of poetry from 1968. Full of angry emotion and disturbing tone, her poetry deals with the horrible and painful. In 1985, "The Triumph of Achilles" was released to thunderous applause, gaining awards in every category. It received the National Book Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. Gluck has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannas Literary Award for Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowments for the Arts. Her collection "Ararat", (1990) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbett National Prize for Poetry. Other collections include "The Garden" and "The Wild Iris". The "Wild Iris", perhaps her most award winning collection acquired the highest honor possible in 1993, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award In 1994 she was named Poet Laureate of Vermont, and was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003, she was named Poet Laureat of the United States. She was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Winter recipes from the collective
- Original publication date
- 2021
- Dedication
- a Kathryn Davis
- Original language
- Inglese
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