“You must be taught to love me”: On Louise Glück’s Choral Lyric

Abstract: This essay considers the American poet Louise Glück’s 1992 lyric sequence, The Wild Iris , as a contemporary instantiation of theological choral. Following W. R. Johnson’s work on choral lyric, I propose an account of both theological poetics and lyric theory that allows for a theological treatment of Glück’s polyvocal voicings.