{"product_id":"winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems-louise-gluck","title":"Winter Recipes From the Collective: Poems;  Louise Gluck","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ethere is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWinter Recipes from the Collective\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edolente\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eanimoso\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister's death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Some of you will know what I mean,\" the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, \"all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.\" This magnificent book couldn't have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOctober 19, 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAmerican poet \u003cb\u003eLouise Elisabeth Glück\u003c\/b\u003e served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe is the author of twelve books of poetry, including: \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"A Village Life\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/6100917.A_Village_Life\"\u003eA Village Life\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2009); \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Averno\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76548.Averno\"\u003eAverno\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Seven Ages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/56155152.The_Seven_Ages\"\u003eThe Seven Ages\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(2001); \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Vita Nova\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/43879093.Vita_Nova\"\u003eVita Nova\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Meadowlands\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76544.Meadowlands\"\u003eMeadowlands\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1996); \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Wild Iris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76546.The_Wild_Iris\"\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Ararat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/29939052.Ararat\"\u003eArarat\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She also published a collection of essays, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76547.Proofs_and_Theories__Essays_on_Poetry\"\u003eProofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(1994), which won the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2001, Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"The Wild Iris\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/76546.The_Wild_Iris\"\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e. Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (\u003cem\u003e \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Triumph of Achilles\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/137130.Triumph_of_Achilles\"\u003eTriumph of Achilles\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e), the Academy of American Poet's Prize (\u003cem\u003e \u003ca rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Firstborn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/182683.Firstborn\"\u003eFirstborn\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e), as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, \"for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGlück also worked as a senior lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served as a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa and taught at Goddard College in Vermont. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches as the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale University and in the creative writing program of Boston University.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45536524239170,"sku":"","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/winterecipes.jpg?v=1688935426","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/winter-recipes-from-the-collective-poems-louise-gluck","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}