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The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet It 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 ...

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"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glck's astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational...

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Poems examine the relationship between humans and nature and consider mortality, consciousness, identity, and love.

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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 ...

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The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melv...

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A Financial Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. Louise Gluck's thirteenth book of poems 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 Reci...

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Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection 'At last the night surrounded me; / I floated on it, perhaps in it, / or it carried me as a river carries / a boat'. In Louise Gluck's new collection, night takes on the dim...

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Marigold and Rose is an enchanting, playful, and absolutely singular fable from the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Glück. "Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So begins Marigold and Rose ,...

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A ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, Gluck's sixth poetry collection confronts, with devastating irony, her father's hollow life and her mother's inability to express emotion. This might seem like a daughter's belated rebellion, except t...

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Louise GlUck has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal,...

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Since, 1990, Louise GlUck has been exploring a form that is, according to poet Robert Hass, her invention. "Vita Nova" -- like its immediate predecessors, a book-length sequence -- combines the ecstatic utterance of "The Wild Iris&q...

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In the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove, GennaRose Nethercott describes a woodsman who cuts off his hand with an axe—however, instead of merely being severed, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far fro...

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita Nova Louise Glck has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distan...

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn Vita Nova, Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Louise Glck manages the apparently impossible: a terrifying act of perspective that brings into resolution the smallest human hope and the vast forces that shape and ...

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Jay Hopler's Green Squall is the winner of the 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. As Louise Glück observes in her foreword, “Green Squall begins and ends in the garden”; however, Hopler’s gardens are not of the s...

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Fady Joudah’s The Earth in the Attic is the 2007 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 quot...

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Ken Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet’s relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to recapture the unity of youth through comically doome...

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Katherine Larson is the winner of the 2010 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. With Radial Symmetry, she has created a transcendent body of poems that flourish in the liminal spaces that separate scientific inquiry from empathic knowledge, a...

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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.

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A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia T...

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Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times ) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-...

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimesLouise Gluck's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, sim...

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The complete acceptance speech of Louise Gluck, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.The Nobel Prize committee selected poet and author Louise Gluck "e;for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existen...

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting new 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 huma...

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Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Gluck."e;Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V."e; So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Gluck's astonishing chronicle of the ...

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A new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing sixth collection of poetry, about "the myth of a happy family" ( The New York Review of Books ). Louise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet, one ...

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Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, "Proofs and Theories" is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gluck, whose most recent book of poems, "The Wild Iris, " was awarded the Pulitzer Prize...

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"The First Four Books of Poems" collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets. Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for "The WildIris, " Gluck was celebrated early in her...

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In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of "The Odyssey." Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting in...

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"e;Gluck's narration, weathered and tender, reveals her gift for storytelling. Her poetic roots are manifest as she dwells on gemlike realizations, which range from the recognition that books and animals do not judge to the desirability of adu...

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