Moon~•
Fragment.
Archaic Fragment
BY LOUISE GLÜCK
I was trying to love matter.
I taped a sign over the mirror:
You cannot hate matter and love form
It was a beautiful day, though cold.
This was, for me, an extravagantly emotional gesture.
.......your poem:
tried, but could not.
I taped a sign over the first sign:
Cry, weep, thrash yourself, rend your garments
List of things to love:
dirt, food, shells, human hair.
....... said
tasteless excess. Then I rent the signs.
AIAIAIAI cried
the naked mirror.
youtu.be/gYKbjAkTsvU?si=JgcOPffunJn4fwll
Louise Elisabeth Glück (April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".
Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States.
Fragment.
Archaic Fragment
BY LOUISE GLÜCK
I was trying to love matter.
I taped a sign over the mirror:
You cannot hate matter and love form
It was a beautiful day, though cold.
This was, for me, an extravagantly emotional gesture.
.......your poem:
tried, but could not.
I taped a sign over the first sign:
Cry, weep, thrash yourself, rend your garments
List of things to love:
dirt, food, shells, human hair.
....... said
tasteless excess. Then I rent the signs.
AIAIAIAI cried
the naked mirror.
youtu.be/gYKbjAkTsvU?si=JgcOPffunJn4fwll
Louise Elisabeth Glück (April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal".
Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize, National Humanities Medal, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Bollingen Prize. From 2003 to 2004, she was Poet Laureate of the United States.