The first UK edition of a radical and unconsoling contemporary collection of essays on poetry, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.

In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book.

The first UK edition of a radical and unconsoling contemporary collection of essays on poetry, from the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020.

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on…

From a fountain where ‘all the roads in the village unite’, concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain’s stone…

A Study Guide for Louise Gluck’s The Mystery, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

In this first collection, Peter Streckfus offers the reader poems of deep originality and power.

Max Ritvo sounds like no one else-this is the rarest of all possible gifts. -LOUISE GLUECK