Join us at the Jesup to read and discuss former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Glück’s newest work, Marigold and Rose: A Fiction.

“We have inner lives, Rose thought.” Marigold and Rose: A Fiction is a short (about fifty page) prose-poetry novella that combines fairy tale form, explorations of selfhood, girlhood, and language, and the incandescent act of autobiography to chronicle the first year in the life of twin baby girls. Publisher Farrar, Straus, & Giroux has described Marigold and Rose as in the spirit of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. 

Louise Glück won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, and has previously been the U.S. Poet Laureate. In her poetry collections before Marigold and Rose, she draws on the natural world, autobiography, myth, and the inner world to craft works like The Wild Iris and Winter Recipes From the Collective. 

This brief novella can be read in one sitting, but please let the Jesup staff know as soon as you can if you’d like to request a copy through interlibrary loan! We will get together on the afternoon of Saturday, May 6th, from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. to talk about the book and explore some of Louise Glück’s other work in an informal group setting. If you would like to come and discuss Glück’s poetry and aren’t able to read the book, we will have copies of her poems available to read. Tea and light snacks will be available. This is an in-person program.