Saturday, August 29, 2009
review:A VILLAGE LIFE by LOUISE GLUCK
The premise of this review by WILLIAM LOGAN[trying his best to 'spin' this into something credible so he won't get slammed by the NYSlimes in the next review of his poetry] in the NYSlimes is that "Glück is perhaps the most popular literary poet in America." NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE FACT OR TRUTH!!! GLUCK who claims her name doesn't rhyme with FUCK in the German is a morose embittered ackademic HAG - who blames her failures in life/marriage on everything but the real culprits - herself and her FOOKED-UP views of the universe!!! In these 72 pages by FARRAR STRAUSS there is very little poetry to enjoy or savor - but plenty of inane psychological BULLLSHIT to be genuinely repulsed. According to GLUCK-whose named doesn't rhyme with FOOK in the Deutche - life is merely a life in a phone booth for towns that still have them and don't rely on cellphones:"...so the heat gets trapped there until they suffocate, as though they were living in a phone booth." NOT PITHY OR RELEVANT POETRY IS IT??? GLUCK is one of the various FRAUDS pimped onto the poetic scene by HELEN VENDLER the hausfrau at HARVARD!!! GLUCK needs massive doses of drugs to even deal with her own artificially induced proverbs of her FOOKED-UP life!!! Another PLATH wannabe trying to find relevance. The oven is waiting but in GLUCK's case this is a microwave not some arcane artificial metaphor like Superman's out-of-date phone booth!!! (Save your $23 dollars and read real poetry/prose EDGAR LEE MASTERS 'SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY') or something relevant to the times we live in not some warned over depressed vignettes of an unhappy and otiose boring attempts at faux poesy.
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Currently, I am finishing a commentary on A Village Life, where I elaborate and explain in great detail Gluck's current position. And so, on the contrary, to 'see' so much negativity is to mis-read A Village Life. In Gluck's own words, "like the Buddhists" (VL 53), she uses "the via negativa" (VL 34) to perceive and pursue this dark path toward positive seeing and perfection. To be sure, within the poem entitled "BATS" as well the entire A Village Life, Glück addresses fundamental issues to include religion, the past, death, nature, psychoanalysis, and even, language, which appears to be this intangible object swerving through reality and illusion. Again, although, on the surface, things may appear pessimistic or negative, this little visit reveals ideas about recognizing and improving the situations and way of life and death by seeing so much positive and abundant life, currently.
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