“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”
Louise Glück book Meadowlands
Source: Meadowlands (1996), "Nostos"
Quotes from bookMeadowlands
Includes Penelope's Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nostos, the homecoming.
