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Book Review of The Wild Iris

The Wild Iris
The Wild Iris
Author: Louise Gluck
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Glück's Pulitzer Prize winning collection, The Wild Iris, is written from three different points of view; An omnipresent god, flowers, and a human. It feels a little unfair to rate the book after one reading because the poems demand to be read and re-read numerous times. However, many of these poems didn't engage me like I thought they might. The Wild Iris is an interesting concept and Glück is a wonderful writer; but ultimately the poems left me slightly underwhelmed.