Winter Recipes from the Collective

Louise Gluck

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Carcanet Press Ltd
28 October 2021

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

"A Financial Times Best Poetry Books of 2021.

Louise Gluck's thirteenth book of poems is among her most haunting. Here as in The Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, 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. ""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."

By: Louise Gluck
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781800171800
ISBN 10: 1800171803
Pages: 64
Publication Date: 28 October 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louise Gluck is the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the 2014 National Book Award for Faithful and Vir-tuous Night, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the 2001 Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962-2012, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.