Louise Glück

SIETE años despues de Noche fiel y virtuosa y uno despues de la concesi¢n del Premio Nobel de Literatura, Louise GlÁück (Nueva York, 1943) regresa una vez más en su nuevo libro a una meditación sobre

Entre el bien y el mal hubo una guerra.Decidimos que el cuerpo fuese el bien.Eso hizo que el mal fuese la muerte,que el alma se volvieracompletamente en contra de la muerte.Como un soldado que deseaservir a un gran señor, el almadesea cerrar filas con el cuerpo.Se puso en contra de la oscuridad,en contra de las formas de la muerteque reconocia.De donde viene la vozque dice: y si la guerrafuese el mal, que dicey si fue el cuerpo el que nos hizo esto,nos hizo tener miedo del amor.Lago en el crater, de Louise Gluck.

En nuestra familia, todos aman las flores. Por eso las tumbas nos parecen tan extrañas: sin flores, sólo herméticas fincas de hierba con placas de granito en el centro: las inscripciones suaves, la l

En mi primer sueño el mundo parecía lo salado, lo amargo, lo prohibido, lo dulce En mi segundo sueño descendía, era humana, no veía nada de nada bestia como soy debía tocarlo, contenerlo me escond

Se me secó el alma. Como un alma arrojada al fuego, pero no del todo, no hasta la aniquilación. Sedienta, siguió adelante. Crispada, no por la soledad sino por la desconfianza, el resultado de la vio

El gran hombre le da la espalda a la isla.Su muerte no sucederá ya en elparaísoni volverá a oírlos laudes del paraíso entre los olivos,junto a las charcas cristalinas bajo los cipreses. Dacomienzo ahora el tiempo en el que oye otra vezese latido que es la narraciondel mar, al alba cuando su atraccion es mas fuerte.Lo que nos trajo hasta aquinos sacara de aqui; nuestra navese mece en el agua teñida del puerto.Ahora el hechizo ha concluido.Devuelvele su vida,mar que solo sabes avanzar.La decision de Odiseo, de Louise Gluck.Louise Gluck es autora de mas de nueve libros de poesia y de una coleccion de ensayos, Proofs and Theories, que obtuvo el Premio PEN/Martha Albrand. Fue galardonada con el Premio Nacional de la Critica por The Triumph of Achilles, el Premio Pulitzer por The Wild Iris (El iris salvaje, Pre-Textos, 2006), y el primer Premio otorgado por los lectores del New Yorker, ademas del Premio Bollingen, por Vita Nova. Entre otros, cuenta tambien con el Premio Nacional Bobbit otorgado por la Biblioteca del Congreso, el Premio William Carlos Williams otorgado por la Asociacion de Poetas de Estados Unidos, el Premio Fundacion Lannan y el Premio Ambassador, otorgado por la Union de Hablantes de lengua inglesa. Louise Glück es miembro de la Academia Americana de las Artes y las...

TRAS la publicación de su poesía reunida en 2012, la poeta Louise Glück (Nueva York, 1943) ha seguido en Noche fiel y virtuosa (2014) el consejo de su colega Richard Siken de "jugar en el barro, sola

Louise Glück compte depuis longtemps parmi les voix majeures de la poésie contemporaine outre-Atlantique. Son œuvre, née de l’expérience et de la voix d’une femme, traverse le féminin tout en lui rés

Depuis la parution de son premier recueil en 1968, Louise Glück n’a eu de cesse de réinventer son art, tout en créant une voix immédiatement reconnaissable, par son mélange de retenue et d’affirmatio

In Averno (2006), raccolta ormai ritenuta un classico, Louise Gluck, esplora concetti come "mente" e "anima" da un punto di vista originale, spesso amarognolo; si propone di esaminare la "frattura nell'anima umana / che non e stata fatta per appartenere / tutta alla vita", e si chiede come un'anima che sopravvive all'esistenza corporea puo trovare appagamento, sapendo che le innumerevoli gioie della vita "le bacche rosse del sorbo selvatico", "le migrazioni notturne degli uccelli" saranno svanite per sempre (New York Times Book Review). Averno e la seconda raccolta di Louise Gluck edita in Italia (dopo L'iris selvatico, 2003, tradotto anche da Massimo Bacigalupo).

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREThe collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prizewinning poetIt is the astonishment of Louise Gluck's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what came before has grown more fierce, the force of her gaze fixed on what has yet to be imagined. She invented a form to accommodate this need, the book-length sequence of poems, like a landscape seen from above, a novel with lacunae opening onto the unspeakable. The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscapePersephone, a copper beech, a mother and father and sister, a garden, a husband and son, a horse, a dog, a field on fire, a mountainpersistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita NovaLouise Gluck has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracles metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal and crude. The Seven Ages is Glucks ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in doing do, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossiblean act that simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. over and over, at each wild leap or transformation, flames shoot up the readers spine.

Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gluck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present.Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREWinner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prizewinning poetLouise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 19622012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception.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. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float[ing] into the sky to join the ball." 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.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gluck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gluck's second book of essays--her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gluck's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, American Originality forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Gluck comprehends and destabilizes notions of "narcissism" and "genius" that are unique to the American literary climate. This includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career, such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, American Originality is a seminal critical achievement.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA Village Life, Louise Gluck'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 TreesThe 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.Gluck 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 linesexpansive, fluent, and fullmanifesting a calm omniscience. While Gluck'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.

El pausado transcurrir de los días, con sus ritmos que parecen abolir el tiempo. La peculiar geometría de las calles que irradian desde la plaza central. El ciclo del cultivo y la cosecha, donde la muerte es simultáneamente cósmica y minúscula, donde el renacimiento es tan certero como el sol. El tempo de una existencia desplegada entre colinas, dolorosamente lejos del mar. Louise Glück condensa en Una vida de pueblo el día a día rural en Estados Unidos, con sus animales y habitantes, cuya juventud exuberante y subsecuente decadencia parecen hacer eco de la naturaleza que los rodea. Con ojo sutil e irónico, con dicción afilada, nos muestra el lado oculto de este devenir aparentemente sencillo, exhibiendo sin tremendismo las pasiones que transcurren hondas en su interior.