House on Marshland by Louise Gluck
The House on Marshland by Louise Gluck. 1975 Ecco Press, first edition, 42 pages. Gluck was a Nobel-winning poet and essayist. According to the New York Times: "Her early work, especially her debut, 'Firstborn' (1968), is deeply indebted to the so-called confessional poets who dominated the scene in the 1950s and ’60s, among them John Berryman, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath." Marshland was her second published work, and according to a New Republic review at the time: "The perverse dramatist of the poem has perhaps learned something from Sylvia Plath. But Glück’s tone owes nothing to Plath; it is not Lawrentian or clinical (Plath’s two extremes), but rather, as one auditor said after Glück’s Harvard reading last year, 'unearthly.'”
Condition: Jacket in good+ condition, with open tear on back cover, sunned spine, book in VG condition, some sunning and loosening of pastedown
"And the soul creeps out of the tree."
The House on Marshland by Louise Gluck. 1975 Ecco Press, first edition, 42 pages. Gluck was a Nobel-winning poet and essayist. According to the New York Times: "Her early work, especially her debut, 'Firstborn' (1968), is deeply indebted to the so-called confessional poets who dominated the scene in the 1950s and ’60s, among them John Berryman, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath." Marshland was her second published work, and according to a New Republic review at the time: "The perverse dramatist of the poem has perhaps learned something from Sylvia Plath. But Glück’s tone owes nothing to Plath; it is not Lawrentian or clinical (Plath’s two extremes), but rather, as one auditor said after Glück’s Harvard reading last year, 'unearthly.'”
Condition: Jacket in good+ condition, with open tear on back cover, sunned spine, book in VG condition, some sunning and loosening of pastedown
"And the soul creeps out of the tree."