Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Great Regulars: How small this poem is, for [Louise] Gluck

never wastes the reader's time. In Proofs and Theories, her book of essays on poetry, she explains, "I do not think that more information always makes a richer poem. I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion. . . ." The way mere ruins of the Coliseum evoke lost grandeur more than a newly articulated structure, or the way a few strokes from Picasso conjure a whole guitar, so Gluck's plain speech makes maximum impact in smallest space.

from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice: Louise Gluck--Exacting Beauty

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