Poems 1962-2012 -

Louise Glück

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2013

656 páginas

21h 52m

ISBN-13: 9780374534097

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.

Awards:
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner, L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist, NPR Best Book of the Year

Resenhas (2)

4 (Muito bom)

Leio muito poesia em língua portuguesa, mas devo confessar que sou meio relapsa com a poesia norte-americana, tirando Audre Lorde e Adrienne Rich que estão entre minhas poetas favoritas, não me aventuro muito na poesia completa dos americanos, essa minha mesma negligência pediu que eu enfrentasse Louise Gluck com afinco já que ela acabara de ganahar o prêmio máximo da literatura.
De fato ela é excelente, tendo sua obra-prima Meadowlands o poder e o fascínio dos grandes poetas, mesmo assim num computo geral não a considero hoje uma das minha poetas favoritas dos EUA, mas que vale a pena ser lida com louvor.