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Faithful And Virtuous Night: Poems (2014)

by Louise Glück(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0374152012 (ISBN13: 9780374152017)

languge

English

genre

Poetry

publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: I heard her read some of these poems earlier this summer, and reading through the book with her voice in my head was a real treat. That said, while there were some truly wonderful moments in here (particularly the prose poems, and particularly "A foreshortened journey" and "The horse and rider"), some of the other poems felt like they lacked of the insistence found in her other books. Still, absolutely worth reading.
review 2: I normally love Louise Gluck's work. It used to be spare and sharp as needles. Unfortunately, in her last two books she seems to have turned more towards an overarching narrative. 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... more't warrant it. This books is short but strangely sprawling. 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. The end result was disappointing. I had spent several hours with this odd, unhappy narrator and found his ramblings beautiful but pointless. less

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