{"id":297,"date":"2026-04-02T23:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/?page_id=297"},"modified":"2026-06-09T09:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T16:01:42","slug":"louise-gluck-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/essays\/louise-gluck-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Louise Gl\u00fcck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2026\/04\/Glaser-ImpliedReaderDepressive-2015.pdf\">&#8220;The Implied Reader and Depressive Experience in Louise Gl\u00fcck&#8217;s <em>The Wild Iris<\/em>&#8220;<\/a> is still too close to me, where I am now, for me to offer much reflection. I admire Gl\u00fcck&#8217;s gift so much, and perhaps the way she put it at the center of her life &#8212; but in a way she is the inverted image of Ginsberg for me. His &#8220;Howl&#8221; was a cry of suffering that led him to a deeper joy; her poems of ordinary life and momentary intensities seem to have constructed slowly around her a cage, the terrible cage of selfhood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Implied Reader and Depressive Experience in Louise Gl\u00fcck&#8217;s The Wild Iris&#8220; is still too close to me, where I am now, for me to offer much reflection. I admire Gl\u00fcck&#8217;s gift so much, and perhaps the way she put it at the center of her life &#8212; but in a way she is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-297","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/297\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.chapman.edu\/bglaser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}