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She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.","products":[{"product_id":"american-originality-essays-on-poetry-paperback","title":"American Originality: Essays on Poetry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA luminous collection of essays from Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFive decades after her debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eFirstborn\u003c\/i\u003e, Louise Glück is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality \u003c\/i\u003eis Glück's second book of essays--her first, \u003ci\u003eProofs and Theories\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 1993 PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Glück's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From its opening pages, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality\u003c\/i\u003e forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of \"narcissism\" and \"genius\" that are unique to the American literary climate. This includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career, such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Originality\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal critical achievement.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376597565663,"sku":"9780374537463","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/J5ALriU3zi9780374537463.webp?v=1789218120"},{"product_id":"proofs-and-theories-paperback","title":"Proofs and Theories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eProofs and Theories\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, one of this country's most brilliant poets.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike her poems, the prose of Glück, who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1993 for \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003eProofs and Theories \u003c\/em\u003eis not a casual collection. It is the testament of a major poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1993 PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, \u003cem\u003eProofs and Theories\u003c\/em\u003e is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris, \u003c\/em\u003e was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness and insight that distinguish her poetry. 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 \"sincerety\" 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. \u003cem\u003eProofs and Theories\u003c\/em\u003e is the testament of a major poet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376809967839,"sku":"9780880014427","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Z5Pr4nycPS9780880014427.webp?v=1789225419"},{"product_id":"poems-1962-2012-paperback","title":"Poems 1962-2012 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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 landscape--Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain--persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. \u003cbr\u003e From the outset (\"\u003ci\u003eCome here \/ Come here, little one\u003c\/i\u003e\"), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we \"do not see the intervening fathoms.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom within the earth's\u003cbr\u003ebitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003emy friend the moon rises: \u003cbr\u003eshe is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378178687199,"sku":"9780374534097","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bVCy2eLGK9780374534097.webp?v=1789250782"},{"product_id":"the-seven-ages-paperback","title":"The Seven Ages - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLouise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. 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Vita Nova--like its immediate predecessors, a booklength sequence--combines the ecstatic utterance of The Wild Iris with the worldly dramas elaborated in Meadowlands. Vita Nova is a book that exists in the long moment of spring: a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope; brutal, luminous, and far-seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike late Yeats, Vita Nova dares large statement. By turns stern interlocutor and ardent novitiate, Glück compasses the essential human paradox. 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Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGlück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as \"the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry,\" as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines--expansive, fluent, and full--manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378269946079,"sku":"9780374532437","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/0P2G5Le9Ij9780374532437.webp?v=1789250916"},{"product_id":"the-wild-iris-paperback","title":"The Wild Iris - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Nobel Prize in Literature\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. 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Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of The Odyssey: the \"unanswerable\/affliction of the human heart: how to divide\/the world's beauty into acceptable\/and unacceptable loves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Modern Mythology Retelling: \u003c\/b\u003e The epic journey of Odysseus is recast as the painful, intimate story of a marriage ending, with a worldly Circe, a shrewd Telemachus, and a defiant Penelope at its heart.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMarriage and Divorce in Verse: \u003c\/b\u003e This collection unflinchingly explores the cruelty that intimacy enables, the timeless negotiations of family life, and the emotional landscape of separation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBook-Length Poetic Sequence: \u003c\/b\u003e More than just a collection of individual poems, this is a single, cohesive narrative that weaves ancient myth and modern life into one unforgettable story.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLyrical and Bitingly Honest: \u003c\/b\u003e Gluck's sharp, contemporary voice tackles the central affliction of the human heart: how to separate the world's beauty into acceptable and unacceptable loves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey.\u003c\/em\u003e Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, is a worldly Circe, a divided Odysseus, and a shrewd adolescent Telemachus. 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Gluck discovers in contemporary life the same quandary that lies at the heart of \u003cem\u003eThe Odyssey: \u003c\/em\u003e the \"unanswerable\/affliction of the human heart: how to divide\/the world's beauty into acceptable\/and unacceptable loves.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378318442719,"sku":"9780880015066","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/nZeu3GQwBv9780880015066.webp?v=1789254387"},{"product_id":"winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems-paperback","title":"Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the \u003ci\u003eWild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. \u003ci\u003eWinter Recipes from the Collective\u003c\/i\u003e is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, \u003ci\u003edolente\u003c\/i\u003e, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, \u003ci\u003eanimoso\u003c\/i\u003e, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister's death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Some of you will know what I mean,\" the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, \"all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.\" This magnificent book couldn't have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378345771231,"sku":"9780374606480","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/tWaC0Rqf_x9780374606480_c186926a-4d11-46be-a8ba-05b6f7bd4cdd.webp?v=1789254456"},{"product_id":"ararat-poems-paperback","title":"Ararat: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing fifth collection of poetry, about \"the myth of a happy family\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. 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