ISBN: 9780374604387 Poems 1962-2012 [Hardcover] Gl?ck, Louise (8 items)

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2021. Hardcover. New.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021-03-09. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.43x2.18x9.26. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021-03-09. hardcover. New. 6.43x2.18x9.26. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2021. Hardcover. New. 656 pages. 9.25x6.25x2.00 inches.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021 New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. First edition. First printing, with full number line including the 1. Hardcover. Full black paper-covered boards with silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Publisher's original price intact on front flap ($40.00). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 634 pages. This book collects collects twelve volumes of Gluck's poetry spanning five decades, including "Firstborn," "The House on Marshland," "Descending Figure," "The Triumph of Achilles," "Ararat," "The Wild Iris," "Meadowlands," "Vita Nova," "The Seven Ages," "Averno," and "A Village Life." Glück (1943-2023) was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.". 1st Edition.… Read more

EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED! FIRST EDITION THUS, first printing. Full number line present. Book is brand new and unread. Personally hand signed by Nobel Prize winning poet, Louise Gluck, directly to bespoke bookplate which is laid in rather than affixed. NOT inscribed to anyone. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting!
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… Read more