In this latest convolution of poems...

In this latest convolution of poems, Louise Gluck induces to a new and perhaps more social tonic In Meadowlands, the disintegration of a contemporary marriage plays itself abroad against the fragmentary backdrop of the story we know from the Odyssey Gluck aims for and largely achieves a cumulative and tangled resonance between the everyday and the mythic. As she juxtaposes the dilemmas of a present couple and those of Telemachus, Penelope the Sirens and other epic personages, Gluck avoids lapsing into gimmickry: "Penelope" does not portray for example, the