Poems 1962-2012 - by Louise Glück (Paperback)

The collected works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück are a must-read for any literature lover.

With each book, her drive to leave behind what came before grows more fierce, inventing a form to accommodate this need - the book-length sequence of poems.

The reiterated yet endlessly transfigured elements in this landscape persistently emerge and reappear with the dark energy of the inevitable, shot through with the bright aspect of things new-made.

From within the earth's bitter disgrace, coldness and barrenness, my friend the moon rises: she is beautiful tonight, but when is she not? These poems display a supple and prosecutorial mind interrogating not merely her own life but also the sensual and political nature of the world that spins around it.

With deceptive simplicity, Ms.

Gluck's voice addresses us, the poems in lines so clear we "do not see the intervening fathoms." This career-spanning collection is a major event in American literature, with great novel-like cohesiveness and raking moral intensity.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to experience the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it - read these poems today!