Louise Glück
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
The collected works of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer explores her transfigured landscapes and offers insight into her unique form created to reflect the human drive to release the past in order to realize the yet-unimagined.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Glück's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving...
Author
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English
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Description
"Even present tense has some of the grace of past tense, / what with all the present tense left to go." From Max Ritvo-selected and edited by Louise Glück-comes a final collection of poems fully inscribed with the daring of his acrobatic mind and the force of his unrelenting spirit.
Diagnosed with terminal cancer at sixteen, Ritvo spent the next decade of his life writing with frenetic energy, culminating in the publication of Four Reincarnations....
14) Crush
Author
Series
Yale series of younger poets volume 99
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
An award-winning collection of poems by Richard Siken that explore passion and obsession.
15) Averno
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Language
English
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Description
A ravishing collection by Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Averno is a small crater lake in southern , regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time opposing
17) Vita Nova
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Language
English
Description
In Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glück manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and thwart it
Since Ararat in 1990, Louise Glück has been exploring a form that is, according to the poet, Robert Hass, her invention. Vita Nova-like its immediate predecessors, a booklength sequence-combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild...
Author
Language
English
Description
The complete acceptance speech of Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Nobel Prize committee selected poet and author Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Here is the full text of her Nobel Lecture given on December 7, 2020.
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English
Description
The Wild Iris, is compressed, fastidious, fierce, alert, and absolutely, unconsoled. The force of her thought is evident everywhere in these essays, from her explorations of other poets' work to her skeptical contemplation of current literary critical notions such as "sincerity" and "courage." Here also are Glück's revealing reflections on her own education and life as a poet, and a tribute to her teacher and mentor, Stanley Kunitz. Proofs and Theories...
20) The Wild Iris
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Language
English
Description
This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is, bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.
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