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A Village Life by Louise Gluck
$32.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A Village Life, Louise Gl ck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees--The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;on su ...Show more
Averno by Louise Gluck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abdu ...Show more
Faithful and Virtuous Night - Poems by Louise Gluck; Louise Glück
$30.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl ck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as a major event in this country's literature in the pa ...Show more
Louise Gluck: Poems, 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
$55.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet. For the past fifty years, Louise Gluck has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form- the boo ...Show more
Marigold and Rose: A fiction by Louise Gluck
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, for ‘her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal’, Louise Gluck takes a new direction in a fable which returns to essential questions, of identity and belonging, of desire and the creative impulse. The twins ...Show more
Meadowlands by Gluck, Louise
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureIn an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey.Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating the act of waiting into an act of will; here, too, i ...Show more
Poems 1962-2012 - Louise Glück by Louise Gluck
$42.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
The collected poems of the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature 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. Sh ...Show more
Poems: 1962-2020 by Louise Gluck
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as for her development of a particular form: the book-length sequence of poems. This volume brings together the twelve collections Gl ...Show more
The Cuckoo by Peter Streckfus; Louise Gluck (Foreword by)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets Ser.
Announcing the 2003 recipient of the oldest annual literary prize in North America The winner of the 2003 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate Louise Glück. It is Glück's first selection as judge. In this unforgettable, ...Show more
The First Four Books of Poems by Louise Gluck
$35.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 WildIris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. InFirstborn, The House on Mars ...Show more
Vita Nova by Gluck, Louise
$23.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Louise Gluck’s collection is a work of ends and beginnings. Her poetry comes in white-hot sequences of passionate intensity. Vita Nova is a sequence of poems which dramatises the end of a relationship and the beginning of a new life. Vibrant, at times anguished, but never resigned, the voices in this co ...Show more