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The Gold Lily (audio only)
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Credit
From The Wild Iris, published by The Ecco Press, 1992.
Author
Louise Glück
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Louise Glück is the recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, served as a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets, and twas the Library of Congress’s poet laureate consultant in poetry.