Louise Glück – Aug 10, Iyengar II & I

Memory last week, this week a Memoir. Could you write a memoir in three words?

MEMOIR

I was born cautious, under the sign ofTaurus.

I grew up on an island, prosperous,

in the second half of the twentieth century;

the shadow of the Holocaust

hardly touched us.

I had a philosophy of love, a philosophy

of religion, both based on

early experience within a family.

And if when I wrote I used only a few words

it was because time always seemed to me short

as though it could be stripped away

at any moment.

And my story, in any case, wasn't unique

though, like everyone else, I had a story,

a point of view.

A few words were all I needed:

nourish, sustain, attack.