First Four Books Of Poems de Louise Gluck

Date de parution : 08.1999
Format : Broché
Nombre de pages : 240
Résumé : Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The First Four Books of Poems  collects the early work that established Louise Gluck as one of America's most original and important poets.  Honored with the Pulitzer Prize for  The Wild Iris,  Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. In  Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure,  and  The Triumph of Achilles,  which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of a poet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth. The voice that has become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth. Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise Gluck shows herself happily "used by time." ...