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Poems, 1962-2012

by Louise Glück
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Poems, 1962-2012
Poems, 1962-2012

Evocative poetry spanning life, death, myth, nature.

If you're looking for a poetic journey that marries the ordinary with the mythic, Louise Glück's "Poems, 1962-2012" could be your next great read. Glück has a way of pulling at the threads of everyday experiences and weaving them with timeless themes, making her work both immediately relatable and deeply philosophical. Her compact, clear lines have the deceptive simplicity of still waters with profound depths beneath. This collection invites you to plunge into the breadth of a celebrated poet's career, a treat for the soul searching for beauty and truth in words.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Poems, 1962-2012

by Louise Glück
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ISBN: 9780374534097
Authors: Louise Glück
Publisher: FSG Adult
Date of Publication: 2013-11-05
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Creative Nonfiction
Goodreads rating: 4.43
(rated by 2001 readers)

Description

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 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. From the outset ("Come here / Come here, little one"), Glück'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.
 

Evocative poetry spanning life, death, myth, nature.

If you're looking for a poetic journey that marries the ordinary with the mythic, Louise Glück's "Poems, 1962-2012" could be your next great read. Glück has a way of pulling at the threads of everyday experiences and weaving them with timeless themes, making her work both immediately relatable and deeply philosophical. Her compact, clear lines have the deceptive simplicity of still waters with profound depths beneath. This collection invites you to plunge into the breadth of a celebrated poet's career, a treat for the soul searching for beauty and truth in words.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.