Louise Glück. (2014). Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Louise Glück. 2014. Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

Louise Glück. Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014.

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   • bioText: Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Montpelier, Vermont.
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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 Glück 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 pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.
You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball."

Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

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     "One reason Glück has proved so central to American poetry, for five decades now, lies in her remarkable talent for recapturing wonder. For all her disabused austerity, she remains a great poet of renewal. This is not a matter of optimism, or 'recovery' in the conventional sense. Rather, for Glück and the speakers in her poems, mere survival appears a nearly incredible wonder . . . What makes Glück's latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, so powerful is the inventiveness with which the poet responds not only to her own mortality, but to the entirely new vantage on the world that her predicament affords. This book follows the widely acclaimed publication in 2012 of Glück's Poems 1962-2012. Yet no one could accuse this poet of relaxing into the role of the senior laureate reproducing a signature style. Reading these poems, one feels that all the resources Glück has developed up until now have been brought to bear, and yet, even more impressively, that she...

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   • source: Michael Andor Brodeur, Boston Globe
   • content: "Shifting between prosaic passages and her more familiar lyric investigations of family, loss, and time's tide, Glück's new collection of poems finds cinematic scope through a deeply personal lens. Moving and rich, her mastery of what she knows is matched only by her ease with the uncertain. 'A word drops into the mist,' she writes, 'like a child's ball into high grass.'"
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     July 21, 2014
     Glück’s 12th collection, her first since Poems 1962–2012, is one where myth, long a primary concern of hers, takes a backseat to more quotidian affairs. “Mist covered the stage (my life)./ Characters came and went, costumes were changed,/ my brush hand moved side to side/ far from the canvas,/ side to side,” Glück writes, “I took a deep breath. And it came to me/ the person who drew that breath/ was not the person in my story.” While readers familiar with Glück will recognize her voice, here she is more conversational, more grounded in the materiality of human experience: “First divesting ourselves of worldly goods,” the book begins, “we had then to discuss/ whither or where we might travel, with the second question being/ should we have a purpose.” Whether through long poems or short prose bursts, she returns to stillness and night as the baselines for human experience, stages upon which the human drama unfolds. “I was aware of movement around me, my fellow beings/ driven by a mindless fetish for action—// How deeply I resisted this!” Glück notes, “truth as I saw it/ was expressed as stillness.” Characteristically sure-footed, Glück speaks to our time in a voice that is onstage, but heard from the wings. Agent: Wylie Agency.

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     September 15, 2014
     

     Old poets never die. They just write about "entering the kingdom of death," as Gluck, former winner of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, calls it. In the poet's latest collection, aging is a cerebral place where the poet remembers her childhood years and connects them to the present. The title poem is memoirlike, describing halcyon (and not so halcyon) days with an older brother and later with a younger sibling. Other pieces suggest that for the poet, adventures are in the past, including her experiences as a writer. The best poems here allude to the state of the soul--"How deep it goes, this soul, / like a child in a department store, / seeking its mother." Gluck's imagery is muted but remains strong. Her voice still has its incantatory rhythms and hypnotic effects, but gone is the vivid metaphor and bright crisp style of the poems (with their sense of overhearing the pronouncements of a Greek chorus) found in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris. VERDICT These language poems try to travel to the interior--both the poet's and the reader's--but meander and often seem to go nowhere slowly although with a certain gracefulness.--C. Diane Scharper, Towson Univ., MD

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     September 1, 2014
     Glck begins her new collection, following the magnificent retrospective, Poems 19622012, with Parable, a keenly droll look at a metaphysical quandary central to the human condition, which sets the scope for the entire exquisitely musing volume. In the title poem, a transfixing symphony of night and its disconcerting illuminations, the speaker thinks, Perhaps the occupation of a very young child / is to observe and listen. This is also the work of a poet, which Glck performs in the persona of an orphaned boy who becomes an artist enthralled by the cycles of life, skeptical about our sense of purpose, and warily attentive to death. Glck, as masterful formally as she is descriptively, navigates gracefully through the dark, without and within, via a poetic form of echolocation, bursting out now and then into summer's bright carnival and the white blaze of snow. Witty, philosophical, and sensuous, Glck embraces dichotomiesThe whole exchange seemed both deeply fraudulent / and profoundly truewhile gracefully posing provocative questions about the nexus between nature and art and the churning complexity of consciousness.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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Louise Glück 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 pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.
You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to...

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