The Wild Iris Explained

The Wild Iris
Author:	Louise Glück
Published:	1992
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Poetry
Isbn:	978-0880013345
Pages:	63

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]

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]

Notes and References

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