“The master said You must write what you see. But what I see does not move me. The master answered Change what you see.” ― Louise Glück, Vita Nova

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End of Winter

BY LOUISE GLÜCK

Over the still world, a bird calls

waking solitary among black boughs.

You wanted to be born; I let you be born.

When has my grief ever gotten

in the way of your pleasure?

Plunging ahead

into the dark and light at the same time

eager for sensation

as though you were some new thing, wanting

to express yourselves

all brilliance, all vivacity

never thinking

this would cost you anything,

never imagining the sound of my voice

as anything but part of you—

you won't hear it in the other world,

not clearly again,

not in birdcall or human cry,

not the clear sound, only

persistent echoing

in all sound that means good-bye, good-bye—

the one continuous line

that binds us to each other.

Happy Birthday to Louise Glück who was born in New York City on April 22, 1943, and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), which won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry; Poems 1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012); A Village Life: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009); Averno (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); and Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker’s Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem “October” as a chapbook.

Selected Bibiography

Poetry

Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014)

Poems: 1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2013)

A Village Life (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009)

Averno (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)

The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001)

Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999)

Meadowlands (Ecco Press, 1996)

The First Four Books of Poems (Ecco Press, 1995)

The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992)

Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990)

The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 1985)

Descending Figure (Ecco Press, 1980)

The Garden (Antaeus, 1976)

The House on Marshland (Ecco Press, 1975)

Firstborn (New American Library, 1968)

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