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1	Wild Iris more books like this by Louise Glueck add to wishlist 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. ... see all copies from $4.10! new only from $7.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Meadowlands more books like this by Louise Glueck, Louise Gluck add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winner Louise Gluck's seventh collection weaves the Odyssey into the story of a troubled marriage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ararat more books like this by Louise Glueck add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Proofs and Theories more books like this by Louise Glueck, Louise Gluck add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $6.34! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	It Is Daylight more books like this by Arda Collins, Louise Gluck (Foreword by) add to wishlist Arda Collins is the 2008 winner of the annual "Yale Series of Younger Poets" competition. Mesmerizing and electric, her volume "It Is Daylight" reads as a series of dramatic monologues articulated in the privacy of an enclosed space. The poems are concrete and yet metaphysically challenging, both witty and despairing. Collins' emotional complexity ... see all copies from $9.32! new only from $9.32! \| SVS
6	Green Squall more books like this by Jay Hopler, Louise Gluck (Foreword by) add to wishlist Jay Hopler's "Green Squall" is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Gluck observes in her forward, '"Green Squall" begins and ends in the garden'; however, Hopler's gardens are not of the seasonal variety evoked by poets of the English lyric - his gardens flourish at lower, fiercer latitudes and in altogether ... see all copies from $5.35! new only from $10.81! \| SVS
7	The Earth in the Attic more books like this by Fady Joudah, Louise Gluck (Foreword by) add to wishlist Fady Joudah's, "The Earth in the Attic" is this year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. In his poems Joudah explores big themes - identity, war, religion, what we hold in common - while never losing sight of the quotidian, the specific. Contest judge Louise Gluck describes the poet in her Foreword as 'that strange animal, ... see all copies from $7.38! new only from $10.12! \| SVS
8	The Cuckoo more books like this by Peter Streckfus, Louise Gluck (Foreword by) add to wishlist The winner of this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate Louise Gluck. It is Gluck's first selection as judge. In this unforgettable, daring first collection, Peter Streckfus offers the reader poems of deep originality and astonishing power. Taking his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Averno: Poems more books like this by Louise Gluck add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.75! new only from $4.76! \| SVS
10	Descending Figure more books like this by Louise Gluck add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
11	A Village Life more books like this by Louise Gl'uck add to wishlist Gluck's 11th collection of poems begins in the topography of a Mediterranean village. Although her writing style is novelistic, the poet focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals meant for reflection. see all copies from $14.27! new only from $14.27! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Averno by Louise Gluck add to wishlist Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Ancient myth is reanimated in the desolation of Persephone's laments for ... see all copies from $25.92! new only from $25.92!
13 view cover	First Four Books of Poems more books like this by Louise Gluck add to wishlist A collection of the early work of the award-winning poet Louise Gluck. see all copies from $35.00! first editions

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