Gluck's most celebrated collection: a sequence of poems in three voices (the garden flowers speaking of death and resurrection, the gardener, and a God who is alternately indifferent and desperately present). The Wild Iris won the Pulitzer and established Gluck as the most rigorous philosophical lyric poet in American literature. Her bleakness is not nihilism but honesty; her beauty is never consoling.

The case for it, the case against, and the rest of the canon open with Pro.