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A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place:

All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.

Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--

The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;

on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.

--from "tributaries"

Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's...

Das Deutsche wird seit etwa 1200 Jahren als Fremdsprache gelernt. Die altesten Zeugnisse sind mittelalterliche Glossare fur Reisende. Im Hochmittelalter florierte die 'direkte Methode': Man lernte Volkssprachen durch mundliche Instruktion. Wirtschaftliche Interessen und Massenvertreibungen im Zeichen von Glaubenskonflikten intensivieren im Spatmittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit die Nachfrage nach Kenntnissen des Deutschen. Systematischer Deutschunterricht ist im 15. Jahrhundert in Norditalien nachweisbar, und auch in Mittel- und Osteuropa wird in dieser Zeit Deutsch unterrichtet. Eine...

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gluck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of...

Such words as security in Brazil,...

Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gluck, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Gluck brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness and insight that distinguish her poetry. The force of her thought is evident everywhere in these essays, from her explorations of other poets' work to her skeptical contemplation of current literary critical notions such as "sincerety" and "courage." Here also are Gluck's...