The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems

by Louise Glück
The First Four Books of Poems

The First Four Books of Poems

by Louise Glück

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Overview

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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 Wild Iris, Gluck was celebrated early in her career for her fierce, austerely beautiful voice. In Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure, and The Triumph of Achilles, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, we see the conscious progression of a poet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth. The voice that has become Gluck's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Always she is moving in and around the achingly real, writing poems adamant in their accuracy and depth. Their progression is proof of her commitment to change; with her first four books of poetry collected in a single volume, Louise Gluck shows herself happily "used by time."


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780063117600
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publication date: 01/04/2022
Sold by: HARPERCOLLINS
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
Sales rank: 886,026
File size: 923 KB

About the Author

About The Author

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.

Read an Excerpt

The Chicago Train

Across from me the whole ride
Hardly stirred: just Mister with his barren
Skull across the arm-rest while the kid
Got his head between his mama's legs and slept. The poison
That replaces air took over.
And they sat-as though paralysis preceding death
Had nailed them there. The track bent south.
I saw her pulsing crotch... the lice rooted in that baby's hair.

First Four Books of Poems. Copyright © by Louise Gluck. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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