The Wild Iris

The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry book by Louise Glück for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993. The book also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award.

Contents

• "The Wild Iris"
• "Matins"
• "Matins"
• "Trillium"
• "Lamium"
• "Snowdrops"
• "Clear Morning"
• "Spring Snow"
• "End of Winter"
• "Matins"
• "Matins"
• "Scilla"
• "Retreating Wind"
• "The Garden"
• "The Hawthorn Tree"
• "Love in Moonlight"
• "April"
• "Violets"
• "Witchgrass"
• "The Jacob's Ladder"
• "Matins"
• "Matins"
• "Song"
• "Field Flowers"
• "The Red Poppy"
• "Clover"
• "Matins"
• "Heaven and Earth"
• "The Doorway"
• "Midsummer"
• "Vespers"
• "Vespers"
• "Vespers"
• "Daisies"
• "End of Summer"
• "Vespers"
• "Vespers"
• "Vespers"
• "Early Darkness"
• "Harvest"
• "The White Rose"
• "Ipomoea"
• "Presque Isle"
• "Retreating Light"
• "Vespers"
• "Vespers: Parousia"
• "Vespers"
• "Vespers"
• "Sunset"
• "Lullaby"
• "The Silver Lily"
• "September Twilight"
• "The Gold Lily"
• "The White Lilies."

Reception

Publishers Weekly called it "ambitious and original" and praised its "powerful, muted strangeness."

References

1. Wild Iris
2. Iris (plant)
3. Donnie Iris
4. Wild Iris (film)
5. Iris nigricans
6. Louise Glück
7. Emile Hirsch
8. Laura Linney on screen and stage
9. Dietes
10. Laura Linney
11. Japanese iris
12. Only the Wild Survive
13. Dietes bicolor
14. Dietes grandiflora
15. Blodeuwedd
16. Gena Rowlands
17. Fred Ward
18. Iris Menas
19. Lee Tergesen
20. Adjoa Andoh