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...Louise Gluck seems to have mixed feelings about her own past as the author of poems like "Mock Orange," in which she wrote, "I hate them as I hate sex,/the man's mouth/sealing my mouth, the man's/ paralyzing body...
...Louise Gluck...
...prediction. Six years ago, she staged Donizetti's popular Lucia di Lammermoor for New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and her vision of madness and death--the stage was strewn with coffins--drew catcalls from tuxedoed first-nighters expecting something considerably more romantic. In her version of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, presented last fall by the New York City Opera, the two principal male characters were stripped down to skimpy loincloths and chained together, to underline what Zambello believes to be the opera's homosexual subtext. "Cesca is an artist with a strong mind and a point of view...
...dispatch from Hollywood, followed by another from Paris--Adam Gopnik on French health clubs, for instance; then some Washington pages in which, say, Al Gore was pried open by Joe Klein; plus a hair-raising investigative piece on some wiggly strain of hepatitis; a dry, subtle poem by Louise Gluck; and a very readable short story--ideally one with a good shot of sex or a British name attached...
...Once I'm done with exams, I'm going to start trying to sell my futon and maybe a lamp," Gluck says. "I'll put up signs and hopefully someone will want them. Otherwise, I might have to just give them away...