Louise Gluck. 
 
The Ecco Press: 1985. Octavo. Hardcover in a jacket. Wrinkle of water damage on the back panel and flap of the jacket. Spine ever so slightly cocked. Final pages, from 53 on, cockled at the top of the leaves. 60 pages. Very good. 
 
Gluck's focus zeros in on the poet's mission of "knowing" and "clarifying," or: saying the elements that make up the mind and the world without us having realized it. Everything readers had come to expect of Gluck is in the 1985 Triumph. New emotional textures, new ways to invite the reader in, or: the new that readers could never hope to expect before they opened the book. 
 
"Look up into the light of the lantern. 
Don't you see? The calm of darkness 
is the horror of Heaven."