Winter Recipes from the Collective

Winter Recipes from the Collective

by Louise Glück
Winter Recipes from the Collective

Winter Recipes from the Collective

by Louise Glück

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There is truly nothing like the words of a poet to help us reflect. What better poet than Noble Prize winner Louise Gluck to set us in a moment of introspection. These poems will do your soul good.

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A haunting book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes

Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts.

“Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustaining presence, the voice containing all our lifetimes, “all the worlds, each more beautiful than the last.” This magnificent book couldn’t have been written by anyone else, nor could it have been written by the poet at any other time in her life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374604103
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 10/26/2021
Pages: 64
Sales rank: 435,398
Product dimensions: 6.35(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

About The Author
Louise Glück (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 for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012, 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.

Table of Contents

Poem 3

The Denial of Death 5

Winter Recipes from the Collective 12

Winter Journey 17

Night Thoughts 20

An Endless Story 21

Presidents' Day 26

Autumn 27

Second Wind 30

The Setting Sun 31

A Sentence 37

A Children's Story 38

A Memory 39

Afternoons and Early Evenings 40

Song 41

Acknowledgments 45

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