{"product_id":"poems-1962-2012","title":"Poems 1962-2012","description":"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.\nFrom 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.\"\nFrom within the earth's\nbitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness\n\nmy friend the moon rises:\nshe is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful?\n\nTo 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374126089\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0374126089.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Glück, Louise\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304698826949,"sku":"LFV.0374126089.VG","price":24.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0374126089-0.jpg?v=1780506442","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/poems-1962-2012","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}