Segundo a Academia Sueca, Louise Glück é "uma das mais proeminentes poetas da literatura contemporânea americana". Tornou-se a 16.ª mulher a ser galardoada com o Prémio Nobel da Literatura. A escritora é a 3º norte-americana a receber o prémio e a primeira poeta dos Estados Unidos da América a ser laureada. Louise Glück nasceu em Nova Iorque em 1943. Publicou o seu primeiro livro, "Firstborn", em 1968. Escreveu 12 coleções de poemas, para além de ensaios, tendo recebido vários prémios de prestígio, tais como o Pullitzer (1993) e o National Book (2014). Visita este site para conhecer melhor a autora e ler e ouvir os seus poemas.
October (section I) Is it winter again, is it cold again, didn't Frank just slip on the ice, didn't he heal, weren't the spring seeds planted didn't the night end, didn't the melting ice flood the narrow gutters wasn't my body rescued, wasn't it safe didn't the scar form, invisible above the injury terror and cold, didn't they just end, wasn't the back garden harrowed and planted— I remember how the earth felt, red and dense, in stiff rows, weren't the seeds planted, didn't vines climb the south wall I can't hear your voice for the wind's cries, whistling over the bare ground I no longer care what sound it makes when was I silenced, when did it first seem pointless to describe that sound what it sounds like can't change what it is— didn't the night end, wasn't the earth safe when it was planted didn't we plant the seeds, weren't we necessary to the earth, the vines, were they harvested?
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