''Meadowlands'' is a 1996 poetry book by

Louise Glück Louise Elisabeth Glück ( ; April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existe ...

. The 80-page collection, published by Ecco, is Glück's seventh poetry collection. Via a retelling of the ''

Odyssey The ''Odyssey'' (; ) is one of two major epics of ancient Greek literature attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest surviving works of literature and remains popular with modern audiences. Like the ''Iliad'', the ''Odyssey'' is divi ...

'', Glück explores love through the life and deterioration of a marriage.

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Ceremony
from ''Meadowlands'', reprinted November 8, 2012 in ''

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