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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes

Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, 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.

"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.

Book Details

Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374606480
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
64
Authors:
Louise Glück
Published Date:
2022-10-11
Language:
English

About Louise Glück

Louise Glück (1943–2023) was born in New York City and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020. She served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. Her collection The Wild Iris (Ecco, 1992) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993, and Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014) won the National Book Award. Other collections include Ararat (1990), The Triumph of Achilles (1985), and Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006). She was writer in residence at Yale University and a senior lecturer at Stanford. Her honors include a MacArthur Fellowship and the 2001 Bollingen Prize.

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