Fr. 26.90

Poems 1962-2012

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night , the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles , the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962-2012 , and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Montpelier, Vermont. Klappentext WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 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 "), Gluck'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. ...

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Autori LOUISE GL CK, Louise Gluck, Louise Glück
Editore Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 05.11.2013
 
EAN 9780374534097
ISBN 978-0-374-53409-7
Dimensioni 155 mm x 230 mm x 50 mm
Categorie Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Lirica

Amerika, Poetry, POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors

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