Seriously Funny
 

Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else, edited by Barbara Hamby and David Kirby, has just appeared from the University of Georgia Press. I have two poems in it and am trying to figure out what's funny about Louise Gluck.

Nice going, Sam. Maybe she's the "serious" half of the title?

Congrats!

Gluck rhymes with duck, and ducks are funny.

Actually, Glück rhymes with dick, but that's funny too.

Susan

and with ick.

Two more feathers in your much-feathered cap. Thanks for letting us know about it.

Seriously good news, Sam. Great to hear.

Louise Glück's
Poetry sücks.

--Richard Moore

And let's all say a prayer for the repose of Richard Moore's soul on Palm Sunday. Congratulations, Sam.

I like Glück's poetry, and I do find it funny on occasion. I find a deadpan kind of humor in these lines, for instance, which end one of her books:

I thought my life was over.
Then I moved to Cambridge.

I also discovered when I did a reading of her dialogue poems from Meadowlands with a man reading the husband's lines and a woman reading the wife's, some of the poems got laughs. She has a good ear for some of the frustrating ways couples talk to one another. I am not saying humor is her dominant mode, and her particular kind of humor won't work for most people.

Susan