Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems [Paperback]

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry

A luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prizewinning poet

Louise Gl?ck is one of the finest American poets at work today. HerPoems 19622012was hailed as a major event in this country's literature in the pages ofThe New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation.Faithful and Virtuous Nightis 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 Nighttells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

Louise Gl?ck(1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize forThe Wild Iris,the National Book Award forFaithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award forThe Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize forPoems 19622012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Montpelier, Vermont.

One reason Gl?ck has proved so celÙ