''The Wild Iris'' is a 1992 poetry book by
Louise Glück
Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; born April 22, 1943) is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". H ...
, for which she received the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes awarded annually for Letters, Drama, and Music. It was first presented in 1922, and is given for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author, published ...
in 1993. The book also received the Poetry Society of America's
William Carlos Williams Award
The William Carlos Williams Award is given out by the Poetry Society of America for a poetry book published by a small press, non-profit, or university press.
The award is endowed by the family and friends of Geraldine Clinton Little, a poet an ...
.
Contents
* "The Wild Iris"
* "Matins"
* "Matins"
* "Trillium"
* "Lamium"
* "Snowdrops"
* "Clear Morning"
* "Spring Snow"
* "End of Winter"
* "Matins"
* "Matins"
* "Scilla"
* "Retreating Wind"
* "The Garden"
* "The Hawthorn Tree"
* "Love in Moonlight"
* "April"
* "Violets"
* "Witchgrass"
* "The Jacob's Ladder"
* "Matins"
* "Matins"
* "Song"
* "Field Flowers"
* "The Red Poppy"
* "Clover"
* "Matins"
* "Heaven and Earth"
* "The Doorway"
* "Midsummer"
* "Vespers"
* "Vespers"
* "Vespers"
* "Daisies"
* "End of Summer"
* "Vespers"
* "Vespers"
* "Vespers"
* "Early Darkness"
* "Harvest"
* "The White Rose"
* "Ipomoea"
* "Presque Isle"
* "Retreating Light"
* "Vespers"
* "Vespers: Parousia"
* "Vespers"
* "Vespers"
* "Sunset"
* "Lullaby"
* "The Silver Lily"
* "September Twilight"
* "The Gold Lily"
* "The White Lilies."
Reception
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Publishers Weekly
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'' called it "ambitious and original" and praised its "powerful, muted strangeness."
References
1992 poetry books
American poetry collections
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry-winning works
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