Description
A Nobel Prize-winning collection of interconnected poems, *Faithful and Virtuous Night* follows a mysterious, mutable narrative through darkness, memory, and the shifting boundaries between reality and dream. Louise Glück explores mortality, loss, renewal, identity, and the fragile connections between the living and the dead, allowing familiar oppositions—male and female, past and present, chaos and order—to dissolve and reform. Precise yet haunting, the poems move with the logic of dreams while sustaining a powerful emotional and philosophical clarity. The result is a heartbreaking, wondrous meditation on consciousness, transformation, and the fleeting nature of human life.
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paperback
Carcanet Press, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2014
80 pages
ISBN: 9781847774798
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First Published
2014
Language
eng
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