Rob, humor is a notoriously variable quality. I see Gluck's humor as being in the same range as Dickinson's: wry, ironic, understated. When I organized a reading of her work at my university many years ago, it was the double-voiced poems (wife and husband, with one italicized and the other not) from Meadowlands that got the most laughs. But they did get laughs.
Susan
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