RaveFull StopOne of the common threads of these works is the intensity and immediacy with which they are able to convey sexual desire in, and through, their avatar-texts. But what remains a puzzle is why articulating desire becomes more, rather than less possible, with so much antiquated language floating around ... In many ways, historical language is the best kind of language for abject desire. When you’re as in love as the \'writers who love too much\' are, its crucial to temporize, to bide your time while you give the person you’re obsessed with time to make his or her decision to be with you or not ... Glück uses the form of the declarative sentence towards an end of lyricism and excess. The authenticating detail, paradoxically, suffuses the writing with the hyper-personal, rather than giving it objectivity ... Glück’s literary effects are staked on a playfulness that far exceeds the pleasures of high-low.
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