At last the night surrounded me,I floated on it,perhaps in it,Or it carried me as a river carries a boat.
In Louise Gluck's new collection,night takes on the dimensions of myth,becomes the setting for a sequence of journeys and explorations through time and memory,as the speaker of the poems moves backwards into childhood and forwards into'the kingdom of death'.
Gluck draws equally on the worlds of fairy-tale,of dream and of waking life,each poem a door into a narrative both haunting and compellingly beautiful.
Publisher: Carcanet Press LtdISBN: 9781847774798Number of pages: 80
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"The high art and deep pleasure of Faithful and Virtuous Night derive from...moments of startling presence,when everyday facts turn magical,when disenchantment itself leads to renewed enchantment. It is a great good fortune to hold these poems in hand." - Peter Campion,The New York Times Book Review
"Shifting between prosaic passages and her more familiar lyric investigations of family,loss,and time's tide,Gluck's new collection of poems finds cinematic scope through a deeply personal lens. Moving and rich,her mastery of what she knows is matched only by her ease with the uncertain.'A word drops into the mist,'she writes,'like a child's ball into high grass.'" - Michael Andor Brodeur,Boston Globe
"In Faithful and Virtuous Night,her 13th collection,Gluck writes with a timeless quality,perched on the edge of expectation,awaiting a revelation through the mist,a signal in the capacious night. Her richness of thought and restrained,melancholy voice call forth the rhythms of the broken heart: beating valiantly in quiet desolation. She is the lost pilgrim,unsure whether the still,small pinnacle of her experience is a peak or plateau." - Arlice Davenport,Wichita Eagle
Louise Glück
The recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature,Louise Glück was a multi-award-winning American poet and essayist.
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