Since in 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet, Robert Hass, her invention. like its immediate predecessors, a booklength sequence—combines the ecstatic utterance of with the worldly dramas elaborated in is a book that exists in the long moment of spring: a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope; brutal, luminous, and far-seeing. Like late Yeats, dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Glück compasses the essential human paradox. In Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that thwart and shape it.