GENEVA WRITERS CONFERENCE

I was delighted to meet up with George Szirtes whom I met at East Anglia

University and with David Rivard whom I had met in Vermont College

where I am alumna. I found Rivard's workshop interesting due to his

presentation of poems with different points of view, especially those

of Louise Glück who speaks of her intimate everyday life in several

different layers of consciousness. "In Purple Bathing Suit" she

addresses her husband from whom she is about to divorce with

different emotions like anger, sarcasm, wit, and delight throughout

the five stanzas until she ends the poem with her human outrage

by re-claiming her husband.