Louise Glück war eine Dichterin, deren Verse sich durch strenge Schönheit und eindringliche Introspektion auszeichneten. Ihre Werke befassten sich häufig mit Themen wie Mythos, Familie und persönlichen Traumata, wobei sie individuelle Erfahrungen in das Universelle verwandelte. Glücks Poetik beruhte auf präziser Sprache und suggestiven Bildern, die den Leser zu tiefen existenziellen Reflexionen anregten. Ihr Schaffen stellt einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur amerikanischen Lyrik des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts dar.
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Literaturnobelpreis 2020
Averno ist der Name eines vulkanischen Kratersees in der Nähe von Neapel. Für die alten Römer war hier der Eingang zur Unterwelt. Die Mythologie, die Natur, der Mensch zwischen Liebe, Leben und Tod – das sind die Themen der mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichneten amerikanischen Dichterin Louise Glück. 2020 erhielt sie den Literaturnobelpreis »für ihre unverkennbare poetische Stimme, die mit strenger Schönheit die individuelle Existenz universell macht«.Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Ins Deutsche übertragen von Ulrike Draesner
Neue Gedichte der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin »Das Buch enthält/nur Rezepte für den Winter, wenn das Leben schwer ist. Im Frühling/kann jeder ein feines Mahl zubereiten.« Die neuesten Gedichte der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin sind schnörkellos, reduziert und lassen einen doch nicht mehr los. Sie wenden sich an ein Individuum, schwellen an zu einem Chor und weisen auf das große Ganze, das Kollektiv. Lebensgeschichten sind in ihnen verborgen, Segen und Fluch des Alterns, die Kunst, einen Bonsai zu beschneiden, der Tod der Schwester, die Labsal der wärmenden Sonne, deren Helligkeit sich an den dunklen Schatten ermessen lässt, die sie wirft. Ausstattung: Banderole: Nobelpreis für Literatur 2020
A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet 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 Glück has published to date, offering readers the opportunity to become immersed in the artistry and vision of one of the world's greatest poets. From the allegories of The Wild Iris to the myth-making of Averno; the oneiric landscapes of The House on Marshland to the questing of Faithful and Virtuous Night - each of Glück's collections looks upon the events of an ordinary life and finds within them scope for the transcendent; each wields its archetypes to puncture the illusions of the self. Across her work, elements are reiterated but endlessly transfigured - Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain. Taken together, the effect is like a shifting landscape seen from above, at once familiar and unspeakably profound.
The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize–winning poet 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. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape—Persephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountain—persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made. From the outset ("Come here / Come here, little one"), Gluck's voice has addressed us with deceptive simplicity, the poems in lines so clear we "do not see the intervening fathoms." From within the earth's bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness my friend the moon rises: she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not beautiful? To read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it, the one fated to die and the other to endure.
The first UK edition of a radical and unconsoling contemporary collection of
essays on poetry, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realmsBound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Glück's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.
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 Marshland Wand, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which wonthe National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of apoet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth.
The themes of the previous volume of poetry define the tasks of the next for
Louise Gluck. This collection shows the poet in this evolution. It includes:
Firstborn (1968); The House on Marshland (1975); Descending Figure (1980); The
Triumph of Achilles (1985); and Ararat (1990).
A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her
human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book
includes writings on T.S. Eliot, George Oppen, Sylvia Plath, Robinson Jeffers,
Wallace Stevens, and John Berryman.
Includes Penelope's Song in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's Odyssey. This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the nostos, the homecoming.
