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An evening with Louise Glück and Franz Wright

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Louise Glück and Franz Wright read at the Brown Reading Series on March 27. Not being familiar with either poet, I attended this seminar with an open mind. In the end, it was Wright’s poetry that captured my attention more. It was both dark and playful. Playfulness is something I find helpful when listening to poetry read aloud, especially when it has a surface simplicity that is easier to wrap my mind around initially. It’s only through meditating on a poem that I’m able to delve into any deeper meanings and subtexts. Wright’s poetry had these things going for it. Glück’s poems offered a few gems that sounded nice, but I wasn’t sure what they meant. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it would just take further study for me to “get it.” (more…)

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