This haunting collection takes place in a garden, in which the voices of the flowers, the gardener, and the gods of both speak to one another in the taut emotional tenor Gluck is famous for. Pained spiritual longing and a mythic quality heighten the conversation. Based on traditional prayer, many of the poems bear the titles "Matins" and "Vespers. ...
Named for the mountain in Turkey where Noah's ark is said to reside, this collection of poems draws on Greek myth and Old Testament narrative to describe the modern family of the author. The emotional straining of her mother and father, the loss of a sibling, and the complexity of sentiment toward her son are resonant here with archetypal ...
Gluck presents her 11th collection of poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld.
Proofs & Theories is a long-awaited first gathering of essays by one of this country's most brilliant poets. Like her poems, the prose of Ms. Gluck, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 for The Wild Iris, is compressed, fastidious, fierce, alert, and absolutely unconsoled. The force of her thought is apparent everywhere in her writing and ...
Among other things, Glück weaves together the myth of Orpheus and Euridice and the history of her own unhappily-ended marriage. Like many of her books, VITA NOVA is primarily a long sequence of poems, meant to be taken together rather than as independent, freestanding lyrics. This book was nominated for the National Book Award in 1999.
In this ninth book by Gluck, a previous Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize recipient, her straightforward and haunting voice approaches autobiographical material, delving into questions about her own past. Gluck's older sister features importantly in this volume. Named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times.
The Best American Poetry is meant to be, in several senses, a state-of-the-art anthology. The selections are made each year by a different guest editor--in each case, a distinguished American poet--who reads many hundreds of poems culled from dozens of periodicals.
In a recent double fiction issue, The New Yorker devoted the entire back page to a single poem, "The Clerk's Tale," by Spencer Reece. The poet who drew such unusual attention has a surprising background: for many years he has worked for Brooks Brothers, a fact that lends particular nuance to the title of his collection. The Clerk's Tale pays ...
The third annual edition of Sarabande's Quarternote Chapbook Series. "Identifying with the season of autumn, the dark of it, the barren, irreversible future of it, and the beauty of it, which is not seen as redemptive, the voice of Louise GlA1/4ck is starker, more direct, more emotionally charged than it has ever been. October is a masterpiece." ...
Jessica Fisher's "Frail-Craft" is Louise Gluck's fourth selection for the "Yale Series of Younger Poets", the oldest annual literary prize in the United States. Through deft, quietly authoritative lyrics, the poet meditates on the problems and possibilities, the frail craft, of perception for the reader or the dreamer, maintaining that 'if the eye ...
This promising debut volume by Gluck, who later won American poetry's top honors, including the Pulitzer Prize, presents a number of personas speaking with ardor and wrath.
Published in 1975, this second book by Gluck established her as a voice to be reckoned with in contemporary poetics. Gluck built on the themes presented here, including confession and myth, in her later work, which was honored with a Pulitzer prize in 1993.
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