{"product_id":"9781857542233-the-wild-iris","title":"The Wild Iris","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for \"The Wild Iris\" in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020\u003cbr\u003eWinner of The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1993\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Vendler wrote in \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e: 'Louise Glück 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat a strange book \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e is, appearing in this fin-de-siècle, written in the language of flowers. It is a \u003cem\u003elieder\u003c\/em\u003e cycle, with all the mournful cadences of that form. It wagers everything on the poetic energy remaining in the old troubadour image of the spring, the Biblical lilies of the field, natural resurrection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449948057974,"sku":"9781857542233","price":7.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35898492.jpg?v=1760446943","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781857542233-the-wild-iris","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}