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Mock Orange (audio only)
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Credit
From The Triumph of Achilles, published by The Ecco Press, 1985.
Author
Louise Glück
Photo credit: Gasper Tringale
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.