{"title":"Louise Glück","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"poems-1962-2012","title":"Poems 1962-2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape--Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain--persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. \u003cbr\u003e From the outset (\"\u003ci\u003eCome here \/ Come here, little one\u003c\/i\u003e\"), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we \"do not see the intervening fathoms.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom within the earth's\u003cbr\u003ebitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emy friend the moon rises: \u003cbr\u003eshe is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it, the one fated to die and the other to endure.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793372905514,"sku":"9780374534097","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/poems-1962-2012-8816272.jpg?v=1762149479"},{"product_id":"winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems","title":"Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the \u003ci\u003eWild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. \u003ci\u003eWinter Recipes from the Collective\u003c\/i\u003e is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, \u003ci\u003edolente\u003c\/i\u003e, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, \u003ci\u003eanimoso\u003c\/i\u003e, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister's death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Some of you will know what I mean,\" the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, \"all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.\" This magnificent book couldn't have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793373462570,"sku":"9780374606480","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems-6614986.jpg?v=1762149480"},{"product_id":"faithful-and-virtuous-night-poems","title":"Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the National Book Award for Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA luminous, seductive new collection from the \"fearless\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her \u003ci\u003ePoems 1962-2012 \u003c\/i\u003ewas hailed as \"a major event in this country's literature\" in the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003e is no exception. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where \"on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball\" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, \"the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night \u003c\/i\u003etells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793373528106,"sku":"9780374535773","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/faithful-and-virtuous-night-poems-2983258.jpg?v=1762149479"},{"product_id":"averno-poems","title":"Averno: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAverno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. \u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What \u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAverno\u003c\/i\u003e is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793373593642,"sku":"9780374530747","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/averno-poems-6964581.jpg?v=1762149479"},{"product_id":"marigold-and-rose-a-fiction","title":"Marigold and Rose: A Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarigold and Rose\u003c\/i\u003e is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glück.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.\" So begins\u003ci\u003e Marigold and Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, Louise Glück's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka's \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e, an incandescent act of autobiography. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere are the elements you'd expect to find in a story of infant twins: Father and Mother, Grandmother and Other Grandmother, bath time and naptime--but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. \"Outside the playpen there were day and night. What did they add up to? Time was what they added up to. Rain arrived, then snow.\" The twins learn to climb stairs, they regard each other like criminals through the bars of their cribs, they begin to speak. \"It was evening. Rose was smiling placidly in the bathtub playing with the squirting elephant, which, according to Mother, represented patience, strength, loyalty and wisdom. How does she do it, Marigold thought, knowing what we know.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimultaneously sad and funny, and shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book, following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays, is unlike anything Glück has written, while at the same time it is inevitable, transcendent.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793373659178,"sku":"9781250893536","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/marigold-and-rose-a-fiction-3225243.jpg?v=1762149479"},{"product_id":"american-originality-essays-on-poetry","title":"American Originality: Essays on Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFive decades after her debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eFirstborn\u003c\/i\u003e, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality \u003c\/i\u003eis Glück's second book of essays--her first, \u003ci\u003eProofs and Theories\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 1993 PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From its opening pages, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality\u003c\/i\u003e forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of \"narcissism\" and \"genius\" that are unique to the American literary climate. This includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career, such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal critical achievement.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793373790250,"sku":"9780374537463","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/american-originality-essays-on-poetry-8937115.jpg?v=1762149478"},{"product_id":"village-life-poems","title":"Village Life: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize-winning poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Village Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the roads in the village unite at the fountain.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe fountain rises at the center of the plaza;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eon sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e--from \"tributaries\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAround the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as \"the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry,\" as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines--expansive, fluent, and full--manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.","brand":"Louise Glück","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793373855786,"sku":"9780374532437","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/village-life-poems-9088012.jpg?v=1762149478"},{"product_id":"ararat-poems","title":"Ararat: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing fifth collection of poetry, about \"the myth of a happy family\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. 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