Description
This powerful collection of poems reimagines myth, history, and intimate experience through luminous, emotionally precise language. Drawing on figures such as Achilles and other voices from the ancient world, the poems explore love, grief, mortality, vulnerability, and the human cost of heroism. Louise Glück’s spare, haunting style transforms legendary stories into deeply personal meditations on desire, loss, and the fragile boundaries between strength and suffering. Both formally controlled and profoundly moving, the collection established her as a distinctive and influential voice in contemporary poetry.
Available Editions
paperback
Brand: Ecco Pr
Published May 1, 1987
72 pages
ISBN: 9780880010825
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Details
First Published
1985
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück.