Name: a village life,poems (in English)
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Author: Louise Glück
ISBN: 9780374532437

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Louise Glück

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.1 x 14.5 x 0.8 cm

Weight

0.11 kg.

ISBN

0374532435

ISBN13

9780374532437

Synopsis "a village life,poems (in English)"

A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain.Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees-The fountain rises at the center of the plaza;on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.-from "tributaries"Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines-expansive, fluent, and full-manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.

Louise Glück

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(1943-2023) Louise Elisabeth Glück fue una poeta estadounidense. Nacida en Nueva York en 1943, publicó trece volúmenes de poesía, dos colecciones de ensayos y una breve pieza en prosa. En 2020 fue galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura "por su inconfundible voz poética, que hace que la existencia individual sea universal con una belleza estricta". Por sus obras, también recibió el Premio Pulitzer, el Premio Bollingen, el Premio Nacional del Libro y la Medalla de Oro a la Poesía de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras, entre otros. Enseñó en las universidades de Yale y Stanford.

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