In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. You were a woman. 2014-07-08 in Poetry It has beautiful moments but I never quite saw an arc, nor did I ever once find myself falling in love with its main voice. I was waiting for this book to come out today the same way one awaits new music from a beloved band. This books is short but strangely sprawling. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Heartbreaking? 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. I was, for the most part, underwhelmed. Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems 作者 : Louise Gluck 出版社: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 出版年: 2014-9-9 页数: 71 定价: USD 23.00 装帧: 精装 ISBN: 9780374152017 Faithful and Virtuous Night Poems (eBook) : Glück, Louise : Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poetLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. 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 man. Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. More by Louise Gluck. Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story, but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of it's narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. The high art and deep pleasure of “Faithful and Virtuous Night” derive from similar moments, moments of startling presence, … Glücks poetry is full of rephrasings and puns – the virtuous night of the title comes into being because the narrator misunderstands the title of the book his brother was reading (“the faithful and virtuous knight”). Welcome back. As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. I don't have time for things that don't move me in significant ways anymore, and this just didn't. Read Faithful And Virtuous Night Poems Louise Gluck PDF on our digital library. ― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night. March 2015. I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. This book follows the widely acclaimed publication in … Severina Rodrigo Rey Rosa. I am not sure whether I would have recognized these texts as poetry , at least not some of them. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? 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. In Faithful and Virtuous Night, her 13th collection, Glück writes with a timeless quality, perched on the edge of expectation, awaiting a revelation through the mist, a signal in the capacious night. Meursault, contre-enquête Kamel Daoud. The end result was disappointing. Book after book, each one radically different from the last. I was, for the most part, underwhelmed. I was about to fall asleep, and then I thought, hey, maybe I should check out this year's winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. There are definitely nuggets in there, but not enough to sustain me. It is as though a line exists between them, like a line on a playing field. Faithful and Virtuous Night; Skip to the end of the images gallery. It is as though a line exists between them, like a line on a playing field. We’d love your help. Louise Glűck is the author of twelve books of poems and two collections of essays. It reads in part: Heartbreaking? How small it was, how brief. Really very different than what I remember reading of her - I've read Averno and Ararat, which dealt with mythological themes as well as trauma and memory. As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Her richness of thought and restrained, melancholy voice call forth the rhythms of … Faithful and Virtuous Night. 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. Información extra. To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. "[5], Glück received the National Book Award for Poetry for the collection. Luminous? More by Louise Glück. Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück. share. I have no idea how it won the NBA. At another time, they might be strangers about to meet by accident. Did I just read same book that's described here? ISBN: 978-0374152017. flag. Severina Rodrigo Rey Rosa. Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and more than a dozen books of poems. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be.”, T.S. Romantic medievalism is at stake in the volume: the boy sees his brother, and other redemptive figures, as a a heroic knight, but he is up against Glück's refusal of redemption. Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems. You can read Faithful And Virtuous Night Poems Louise Gluck PDF direct on your mobile phones or PC. summary of 115 ratings (see reviews) Moods. Glorious poems, but also niggling doubt. It used to be spare and sharp as needles. The Question and Answer section for Faithful and Virtuous Night is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and … You were a woman. About book author. How small it was, how brief. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. I've just. Industry Reviews "One reason Gluck has proved so central to American poetry, for five decades now, lies in her remarkable talent for recapturing wonder. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Faithful and Virtuous Night (Book) : Glück, Louise : Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. New. I'd have to read and reread them--in one sitting, mind you, because I did this in two and felt disconnected and forgetful--to understand, or begin to understand. 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. Chris Andrews, tr. In Faithful and Virtuous Night, Glück's longer, lovelier poems are interspersed with blocks of text, prose poems that are blandly koanic, seemingly in love with their own haziness. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. The opening poem "Parable" is tremendous. Special offers and product promotions. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Despite occasional flourishes, and valiant attempts at cinemascope renderings of key life events, I came away with an impression of a writer who has not terribly much to say, or doesn't dare to say what needs to be said. I liked the first half of this collection much more than the second, with my favourite being, I didn’t like this collection as well as the previous one I’ve read by Gluck, “Ararat,” but it was still full of her characteristic beautiful and melancholy imagery. Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story, but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of it's narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. What the community thinks. I didn’t like this collection as well as the previous one I’ve read by Gluck, “Ararat,” but it was still full of her characteristic beautiful and melancholy imagery. In Boston Review, Craig Morgan Teicher wrote that the collection "[...] may be Glück’s strangest work yet, the hardest to describe or put in line with the others. Featuring four writers from the Iranian diaspora and a … How does one know? We understand this refusal as Glück's, but why is it th. 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. Like “Silence had entered me. Louise Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Faithful and Virtuous Night is a poetry collection by Louise Glück, published in 2014. Her richness of thought and restrained, melancholy voice call forth the rhythms of … You were a woman. Kathryn Davis, a friend of Glück's, read the collection's poems as they were written. Unlike "Faithful and Virtuous Night" before it, however, "Cornwall" is less narrative than descriptive: specifically, the poem describes the general silence of the painter and follows his attempts to find words and write in a journal, both in a rented country home and once he returns to his long-term residence. You were a woman. Meursault, contre-enquête Kamel Daoud. This new volume works with long poems (the title poem is 10 pages long, and gripping), prose poems, a new persona, that of a male painter who was orphaned as a boy when his parents and sister died in a car accident. 6 likes. And yet that same absolute confidence in the form. I have a haunting feeling that I didn't quite get it. "[4] Writing for NPR, Annalisa Quinn both praise and criticized the collection's abstruseness, referring to the prose poems as "blandly koanic" while also writing that some of the "[...] poems' incompleteness and inscrutability are suggestive rather than prohibitive. The collection alternates between traditional poems and paragraph-long prose poems,[1] marking the first inclusion of prose poems in a book by Glück.[2]. On the back of the omnibus edition I have of Glück's poetry from 1962-2012 is a quote from a New York Times Review of her work. It's obvious there's supposed to be some narrative thread tying this all together, but it almost completely lacks context and just becomes a series of strange and hard to follow ramblings on memory, aging, emptiness, melancholy. Poems 1962-2012 Louise Gluck. Eliot Prize for Poetry Nominee (2014), Forward Prize Nominee for Best Collection (2014), Faithful and Virtuous Night - Louise Glück - Nathan, ‘My Dark Vanessa’ Courts Controversy on the Page and Off. Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück. I normally love Louise Gluck's work. For me, the persona remains, at the end of the book, a glove puppet. More by Louise Glück. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. My own interpretation, to some extent? You were a man. Poetry, you will always remain a mystery to me. Glück is a part of a small group that proves to me that there are still prophets, and they are still speaking. She drops her book; stooping to pick it up, she touches, by accident, his hand and her heart springs open like a child's music box. I found it strangely subdued and ultimately forgettable. In 2017, Vanessa Wye is confronted by a woman she does not know, asking Vanessa to join her in coming forward with allegations of inappropriate... To see what your friends thought of this book, Congratulations to Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. If this collection is in any way representative for Glück's oeuvre, I don't seem to take well to her brand of poetry. I'm not writing a review of this one until I can discuss it, but I did read it in November. A haunting poetry collection about loss drenched in all its frightful beauty and trembling honesty. 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. 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. September 2014. Be the first to review this product. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. 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. No_Favorite. Faithful and Virtuous Night tells a single story, but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of it's narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück. In the … If this collection is in any way representative for Glück's oeuvre, I don't seem to take well to her brand of poetry. But who would see this light, this small dot among infinite stars? I deeply admire Glück's refusal to repeat herself. I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. This books is short but strangely sprawling. Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems (Averno, A Village Life) and essay collections (American Originality). 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. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. But who would see this light, this small dot among the infinite stars? You were a man. You were a man. At another time, they might be strangers about to meet by accident. How does one know? Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. B. [6] It was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. It used to be spare and sharp as needles. “I think here I will leave you. To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. Did I just read same book that's described here? In Faithful and Virtuous Night, her 13th collection, Glück writes with a timeless quality, perched on the edge of expectation, awaiting a revelation through the mist, a signal in the capacious night. And even then, wouldn't it just be my own ideas? And yet, in a photograph they might appear a married couple, weary of each other and of the many winters they have endured together. Glück drew inspiration from the short works of Franz Kafka while writing the collection. Trade Paperback. 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. About The Author Louise Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. "Faithful and Virtuous Night" was the 2014 National Book Award winner for Poetry. Item #243064 ISBN: 0374535779. And yet, in a photograph they might appear a married couple, weary of each other and of the many winters they have endured together. To me they where rather just shortest stories, flickers of everyday happenings and observations through the eyes of the author. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published I found it strangely subdued and ultimately forgettable. I had a nagging feeling that I was reading something that was "both deeply fraudulent and profoundly true" (quoting Glück from 'The Melancholy Assistant'). [7], "Poem of the week: A Work of Fiction by Louise Glück", "Internal Tapestries: A Q&A With Louise Glück", "The Ecstatic Blankness Of Poet Louise Glück", "TS Eliot prize shortlist joins conflict and reconciliation in the Middle East", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Faithful_and_Virtuous_Night&oldid=983336994, National Book Award for Poetry winning works, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 13 October 2020, at 17:22. 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. In some poems the balance tips towards the former, in others - such as the generally engaging title piece - truthfulness prevails. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. Faithful and Virtuous Night is a poetry collection by Louise Glück, published in 2014. This collection was interesting in how it played with voice, and made me question who the speaker was. Glück attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise Gluck. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. This collection was interesting in how it played with voice, and made me question who the speaker was. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? In some poems the balance tips towards the former, in others - such as the generally engaging title piece - truthfulness prevails. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? Old Age . 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. Be the first to ask a question about Faithful and Virtuous Night. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I deeply admire Glück's refusal to repeat herself. It has come to seem, “As I turned over the last page, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. To me she seems kind of like... Mary Oliver, but depressing. September 2014. I had a nagging feeling that I was reading something that was "both deeply fraudulent and profoundly true" (quoting Glück from 'The Melancholy Assistant'). Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and more than a dozen books of poems. You were a woman. Unfortunately, in her last two books she seems to have turned more towards an overarching narrative. I shouldn’t complain, though, because I do write long poems, so I should get used to reading them. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. This must explain the puzzling music coming from the trees. It also was full of long poems, which I often don’t like, as it is hard to hold a long poem in your mind and see it as a cohesive whole when you have to flip back several pages. ISBN: 978-0374152017. Her poems leave us with a sense of wonder; they leave us … Despite occasional flourishes, and valiant attempts at cinemascope renderings of key life event. There are definitely nuggets in there, but not enough to sustain me. I had spent several hours with this odd, unhappy narrator and found his ramblings beautiful but pointless. All the rest is hypothesis and dream. We understand this refusal as Glück's, but why is it the boy's, and then the adult painter's? Comments. Writing this beautiful and assured deserves 5 stars, without a doubt. One of the central themes in Faithful and Virtuous Night is that of old age, as well as the unique emotional and psychological contours of old age. Refresh and try again. EMBED. 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. Charged with wonder? They are lovely, but other than noting the beauty of the words and the recurring images, they are beyond me. [3] She suggested Glück compose and include its prose poems. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. This new volume works with long poems (the title poem is 10 pages long, and gripping), prose poems, a new persona, that of a male painter who was orphaned as a boy when his parents and sister died in a car accident.
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