Louise Glück 에세이집 "American Originality" 에서

Louise Glück, "American Originality: Essays On Poetry" (2017)

 

 

스무 편의 에세이가 실려 있는데 그 중 열 편은, Louise Glück 이

심사, 선정한 First Book Prize 로 출판된 시집마다에 쓴 그녀의

서문이다. 아래는 Fady Joudah 의 시집 The Earth In The Attic

서문에 인용된 그의 시:

 

     The carpenter

     Dying of cancer in a hospital bed

     Saying, god, I know

     Yuo've given me misfortune

 

     But when I get up there

     There'd better be a damn

     Good reason for it,

     I've got nothing against trees.

 

                           -- "An Idea Of Return"

     

 

다음은 에세이 "American Narcissism'에서:

 

And when Rilke, in the famous lines, urges, "we need, in love,

to practice only this: / letting each other go. For holding on /

comes easily; we do not need to learn it," I cannot help but

believe that, for Rilke, letting go was in fact remarkably easy,

that holding on, whatever might force engagement with the

unmanageable other, was alien.... If Rilke's aim is to divest

himself of the earthly, the temporal, the aim of this desire is

not, as in Eliot, union with a higher other (Eliot craves the

immutable but there is in his work none of Rilke's hungering

after either death or childish innocence): the aim, in Rilke,

seems to be reunion with a deeper self.... Great art. But art

in which the seeds of far more superficial reunions are visible.

For me, Rilke is at his greatest in short forms that contain his

rhapsodic yearnings. (p 15)

 

그리고 "Ersatz Thought" 에서:

 

I am, myself, drawn to the unfinished, to sentences that

falter. I dislike being herded into certainty. And I have sought

and admired (and tried to write) poems in which questions

outnumber answers. (p 33)