{"product_id":"poems-1962-2012-9780374604387","title":"Poems 1962-2012","description":"\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 Gl ck'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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374604387\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 2.20d","brand":"Louise Gl\u0026#252;ck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43112002289845,"sku":"9780374604387","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_67270fbf-c992-4334-a3ed-8dd162deefe4.jpg?v=1693926561","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/poems-1962-2012-9780374604387","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}