Faithful and Virtuous Night
Descriere
Shortlisted for the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Shortlisted for the 2014 TS Eliot Prize. '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.
Despre autor
Louise Elisabeth Glück a fost o poetă și eseistă americană, laureată a Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură (2020), „pentru vocea sa poetică inconfundabilă care, cu frumusețe austeră, face ca existența individuală să devină universală”.
