Louise Gluck. 
 
The Ecco Press: 1992. First Edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Jacket ever so slightly warped. 63 pages. Near fine. 
 
Iris was a turning point for Gluck's self understanding as a poet. Iris addresses a god who is ever-absent, the human race that accomplishes nothing besides leaving traces of its own yearnings, and her garden, where she feels something like nature's return from the undiscovered country. 
 
"To be one thing 
Is to be next to nothing"