{"product_id":"poems-1962-2012-paperback","title":"Poems 1962-2012 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLouise Glück\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the outset (\"Come here \/ Come here, little one\"), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we \"do not see the intervening fathoms.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom within the earth's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emy friend the moon rises: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Glück\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2014 National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize for \u003ci\u003ePoems: 1962-2012\u003c\/i\u003e, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 656\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.88 x 9.05 x 5.97 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42736827269183,"sku":"9780374534097","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/cddcc97559b12f8b93594f2d8aa936fc.webp?v=1765147992","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/poems-1962-2012-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}