"There is something "disembodied, triumphant, dead"—Whitman's words—about Glück's usual voice [...]. She sees experience from very far off, almost through the wrong end of a telescope, transparently removed in space or time."
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Nobel laureates in LiteratureEssayists from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesNobel laureates from the United States20th-century poets from the United States
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Helen Vendler, Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets (Cambridge: Harvard University Press , 1980), p. 305; quoted in 'The One Continuous Line' by Lucy Collins in Aberration in Modern Poetry: Essays on Atypical Works by Yeats, Auden, Moore, Heaney and Others (Jefferson: McFarland, 2012), p. 111.
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