Louise Glück: Ithaca

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Ithaca

Meadowlands, Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1996

12

Allusion to Classical figure The Suitors

Relationship to Classical text Homer's The Odyssey (Images of loom, suitors: 'The loom is for the suitors, strung up like a harp with white shroud-thread'.)