Poems 1962 2012
Uiterlijk 30 oktober in huis
The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 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 landscapePersephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountainpersistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made.
From 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."
From within the earth's
bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness
my friend the moon rises:
she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?
To 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.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 05 november 2013
Aantal pagina's: 656
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Louise Gluck
Tweede Auteur: Louise Gl Ck
Co Auteur: Louise Gleuck
Hoofduitgeverij: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Editie: 1
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product hoogte: 50 mm
Product lengte: 228 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 143 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 50 mm
Verpakking lengte: 224 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 1333 g
EAN: 9780374534097