Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück. 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. I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. Unfortunately, in her last two books she seems to have turned more towards an overarching narrative. 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. 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. You can read Faithful And Virtuous Night Poems Louise Gluck PDF direct on your mobile phones or PC. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. 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. And even then, wouldn't it just be my own ideas? Poetry, you will always remain a mystery to me. 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. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. 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. I have no idea how it won the NBA. I normally love Louise Gluck's work. But who would see this light, this small dot among the infinite stars? Información extra. 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]. Christian Wiman's new book of poetry came out today too, as did Interpol's new CD. Faithful and Virtuous Night. Louise Gluck (author) Paperback. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be. This is Louise Gluck's most recent book of poems. Heartbreaking? Chris Andrews, tr. 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 Trade Paperback. Severina Rodrigo Rey Rosa. No_Favorite. Her richness of thought and restrained, melancholy voice call forth the rhythms of … Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Gluck has been a favorite poet of mine for a while, but this book is really pretty terrible. At another time, they might be strangers about to meet by accident. Like “Silence had entered me. "[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. Luminous? Despite occasional flourishes, and valiant attempts at cinemascope renderings of key life event. Featuring four writers from the Iranian diaspora and a … The end result was disappointing. Generally speaking, Glück uses the older age of many of her speakers in the collection to shed light on elderly life as liminal—that is, as fundamentally indeterminate and trapped between two more definite states. Poems 1962–2012, Louise Glück BACK ISSUE. Poems 1962–2012, Louise Glück BACK ISSUE. I shouldn’t complain, though, because I do write long poems, so I should get used to reading them. 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. More by Louise Glück. The high art and deep pleasure of “Faithful and Virtuous Night” derive from similar moments, moments of startling presence, … I had a nagging feeling that I was reading something that was "both deeply fraudulent and profoundly true" (quoting Glück from 'The Melancholy Assistant'). Faithful and Virtuous Night is a poetry collection by Louise Glück, published in 2014. "Faithful and Virtuous Night" was the 2014 National Book Award winner for Poetry. "Faithful and Virtuous Night" is an invitation to walk alongside a poet and watch as she aims her camera to capture her scenes and stories. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Featuring four writers from the Iranian diaspora and a … Poems 1962-2012 Louise Gluck. In the … I don't have time for things that don't move me in significant ways anymore, and this just didn't. 2014-07-08 in Poetry I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. 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. To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. 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. If this collection is in any way representative for Glück's oeuvre, I don't seem to take well to her brand of poetry. 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. I had spent several hours with this odd, unhappy narrator and found his ramblings beautiful but pointless. And yet, in a photograph they might appear a married couple, weary of each other and of the many winters they have endured together. 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. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? 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. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? 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. 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. There is nothing wrong with that per se but narrative demands a different sort of identification than the lyric does and her character development just doesn't warrant it. B. flag. The same caliber of craft. 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 it's narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. Charged with wonder? Refresh and try again. Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and more than a dozen books of poems. Book after book, each one radically different from the last. Meursault, contre-enquête Kamel Daoud. A man walks alone in the park and besides him a woman walks, also alone. 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. Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück. This book follows the widely acclaimed publication in … I found it strangely subdued and ultimately forgettable. You were a woman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2015. Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Gluck. To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. Her Poems 1962–2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. 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. 6 likes. You were a man. Writing this beautiful and assured deserves 5 stars, without a doubt. You were a man. It is as though a line exists between them, like a line on a playing field. Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Faithful and Virtuous Night; Skip to the end of the images gallery. Faithful and Virtuous Night Louise Glück. Welcome back. [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. But who would see this light, this small dot among the infinite stars? 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. A haunting poetry collection about loss drenched in all its frightful beauty and trembling honesty, Faithful and Virtuous Night weaves a subdued narrative with each poetic piece. 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 (Book) : Glück, Louise : Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. EMBED. 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. We understand this refusal as Glück's, but why is it the boy's, and then the adult painter's? reflective 100% emotional … Averno Louise Gluck. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. I deeply admire Glück's refusal to repeat herself. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. 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. You were a man. 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 is no exception. Read Faithful And Virtuous Night Poems Louise Gluck PDF on our digital library. Glück attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University. This must explain the puzzling music coming from the trees. 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. How small it was, how brief. September 9th 2014 New. It has beautiful moments but I never quite saw an arc, nor did I ever once find myself falling in love. A man walks alone in the park and besides him a woman walks, also alone. We’d love your help. As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. This books is short but strangely sprawling. Louise Glűck is the author of twelve books of poems and two collections of essays. 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. They are lovely, but other than noting the beauty of the words and the recurring images, they are beyond me. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. You were a woman. It is as though a line exists between them, like a line on a playing field. How does one know? Her richness of thought and restrained, melancholy voice call forth the rhythms of … September 2014. Faithful and Virtuous Night is a poetry collection by Louise Glück, published in 2014. Tragedy and trauma is insufficient to explain it. Did not finish. 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. I normally love Louise Gluck's work. The opening poem "Parable" is tremendous. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. Item #243064 ISBN: 0374535779. It used to be spare and sharp as needles. Glorious poems, but also niggling doubt. 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. But who would see this light, this small dot among infinite stars? All the rest is hypothesis and dream. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. Did I just read same book that's described here? ISBN: 978-0374152017. I feel like a jazz freak reviewing a techno album. How small it was, how brief. This collection was interesting in how it played with voice, and made me question who the speaker was. It should be read and reread in our era of postmodern dogmatism. 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. 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. Barely made it 25% through. I deeply admire Glück's refusal to repeat herself. There are definitely nuggets in there, but not enough to sustain me. Her poems leave us with a sense of wonder; they leave us … And out of the box comes a little ballerina made of wood. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be.”, T.S. 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. 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. Unfortunately, in her last two books she seems to have turned more towards an overarching narrative. In some poems the balance tips towards the former, in others - such as the generally engaging title piece - truthfulness prevails. Kathryn Davis, a friend of Glück's, read the collection's poems as they were written. I've just. 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. Charged with wonder? 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. You were a woman. And yet that same absolute confidence in the form. 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. This collection was interesting in how it played with voice, and made me question who the speaker was. 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”). 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 Louise Glück. Glück strings normal words together in strangely incisive ways. To me she seems kind of like... Mary Oliver, but depressing. 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. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. More by Louise Gluck. share. March 2015. At another time, they might be strangers about to meet by accident. 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. 4. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. Special offers and product promotions. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. 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. In some poems the balance tips towards the former, in others - such as the generally engaging title piece - truthfulness prevails. Comments. More by Louise Glück. If this collection is in any way representative for Glück's oeuvre, I don't seem to take well to her brand of poetry. Glück drew inspiration from the short works of Franz Kafka while writing the collection. It reads in part: Heartbreaking? 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. Industry Reviews "One reason Gluck has proved so central to American poetry, for five decades now, lies in her remarkable talent for recapturing wonder. 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. There are definitely nuggets in there, but not enough to sustain me. 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 You were a man. As I turned over the last page, after many nights, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. I was, for the most part, underwhelmed. 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. 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. This collection feels like being on an ocean in a little row boat, where to go forward or backward is both the question and the point. About book author. 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. As per our directory, this eBook is listed as FAVNPLGPDF-1510, actually introduced on 15 … Faithful and Virtuous Night Questions and Answers. I'm not writing a review of this one until I can discuss it, but I did read it in November. And I definitely would not have been able to grasp why the poetry of Louse Gluck would be worth a Nobel prize over another author. Louise Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. What the community thinks. Be the first to ask a question about Faithful and Virtuous Night. ― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. March 2015. 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. I've just read so many things over the last couple of years that made me internally scream "YAAAAAAASS" or that hit me over the head with THIS IS IMPORTANT, or that brought previously foggy ideas and concepts into sharp focus in such mind blowing and achingly beautiful ways. About book author Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems (Averno, A Village Life) and essay collections (American Originality). And yet, in a photograph they might appear a married couple, weary of each other and of the many winters they have endured together. 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. We understand this refusal as Glück's, but why is it th. I was waiting for this book to come out today the same way one awaits new music from a beloved band. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of, Published Be the first to review this product. My own interpretation, to some extent? How small it was, how brief. Old Age . The lasting memories of childhood deeply press against several dreamlike stanzas while it mourns for what can't ever be grasped nor held again. I had a nagging feeling that I was reading something that was "both deeply fraudulent and profoundly true" (quoting Glück from 'The Melancholy Assistant'). It was like the night, and my memories-they were like stars in that they were fixed, though of course if one could see as do the astronomers one would see they are unending fires, like the fires of hell.” For me, the persona remains, at the end of the book, a glove puppet. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. To me she seems kind of like... Mary Oliver, but depressing. How does one know? I am not sure whether I would have recognized these texts as poetry , at least not some of them. Faithful and Virtuous Night is a poetry collection by Louise Glück, published in 2014. Luminous? Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. summary of 115 ratings (see reviews) Moods. I have created this, the man thinks; though she can only whirl in place, still she is a dancer of some kind, not simply a block of wood. September 2014. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. 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. “I think here I will leave you. To me they where rather just shortest stories, flickers of everyday happenings and observations through the eyes of the author. SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION The latest collection by multi-award-winning US poet, Louise Gluck. Faithful and Virtuous Night emanates from a world where darkness blurs ordinarily sharp edges around the oppositions we summon to think our lives—loss and renewal, male and female, the living and dead. "[5], Glück received the National Book Award for Poetry for the collection. Faithful and virtuous night Item Preview > remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. This information about Faithful and Virtuous Night shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. 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. You were a woman. [3] She suggested Glück compose and include its prose poems. It used to be spare and sharp as needles. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? ISBN: 978-0374152017. Meursault, contre-enquête Kamel Daoud. Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. The same daring expressed in a myriad of ways. I honestly don't understand how Glück does this. There is nothing wrong with that per se but narrative demands a different sort of identification than the lyric does and her character development just doesn't warrant it. 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. Did I just read same book that's described here? A haunting poetry collection about loss drenched in all its frightful beauty and trembling honesty. There is also an allusion here to the Anglo-Saxon image of the bird passing through a … Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. I photo-highlighted nearly everything. Louise Glück is the author of two collections of essays and more than a dozen books of poems. 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 is no exception. Skip to the beginning of the images gallery.