What's Your Story?
Louise Glück just won the Nobel Prize in Literature, which made me think of this poem of hers. Glück recasts the tale of King Solomon “splitting the baby” (1 Kings 3:16-28) as an autobiographical story about a daughter sacrificing her own needs in a gambit to win her mother’s love.
The genre of taking familiar, canonical tales and twisting them—sometimes…
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