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THE WILD IRIS

THE WILD IRIS

LOUISE GLÜCK

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
1992
Subject:
Poetry
ISBN:
978-1-85754-223-3
Pages:
63
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The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.

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