Great Regulars: Measured by this standard, which is the standard

that any long poem, from the Iliad to Ezra Pound's Cantos, requires of us, Louise Glück is one of the most ambitious poets we have. Her books have been through-composed at least as far back as The Wild Iris (1992), an extraordinary set of lyrics amounting to a conversation between God, humans, and flowers, and easily one of the most important works of devotional poetry in the last 50 years. Some of her individual poems appear in journals, but they achieve their full effect only when seen in the complete arc of a book.

from Karl Kirchwey: Philadelphia Inquirer: Wise poems chronicling vulnerability of the self

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