The Wild Iris

The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry book by Louise Glück, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993.[1] The book also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award.[2]

The Wild Iris
First edition
AuthorLouise Glück
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry
Published1992
Pages63
ISBN978-0880013345

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."[3]

Reception

Publishers Weekly called it "ambitious and original" and praised its "powerful, muted strangeness."[4]

References
  1. "Poetry Category". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  2. Haralson, Eric L. (2014-01-21). Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-317-76322-2.
  3. Glück, Louise (1992). The Wild Iris. United States: HarperCollins. p. vii-63. ISBN 978-0-880-01334-5.
  4. "Fiction Book Review: Wild Iris by Louise Glueck". Publishers Weekly. June 29, 1992. Retrieved October 8, 2020.


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