{"product_id":"poems-1962-2012-book-louise-glck-9780374604387","title":"Poems 1962-2012","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eFrom within the earth's\u003cbr\u003e bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e my friend the moon rises:\u003cbr\u003e she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49797119967505,"sku":"CIN037460438XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/037460438X.jpg?v=1751228896","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/poems-1962-2012-buch-louise-glck-9780374604387","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}