Louise Gluck - The Wild Iris

Pros: Short, thoughtful, beautiful poems, intriguingly linked together

Cons: May be too melancholy for those who want cheering up

The Bottom Line: Very beautiful, simply written but not simplistic poems, independently lovely and interestingly structured into a single unified work

Review: I've never really been much of a poetry reader, but I had to read this book for a class in college and afterwards decided that it was one of the few textbooks worth keeping around for posterity. I reread it recently, trying to decide whether or not I...