Poems 1962-2012

Name: Poems 1962-2012
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ISBN: 9780374534097

ISBN-10: 0374534098

ISBN-13: 9780374534097

Edition: 2012

Authors: Louise Glï¿½ck

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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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.03" long x 1.84" tall
Weight: 2.090