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Faithful and virtuous night / Louise Glück.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fararr, Straus and Giroux, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 71 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0374152012 (hardcover)
  • 9780374152017 (hardcover) :
Uniform titles:
  • Poems. Selections
Subject(s):
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 811.6 G567 Available 33111007680750
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 811.6 G567 Checked out 06/29/2024 33111007628031
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry

A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times ) Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times . Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.

You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball."

Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

Poems.

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