{"product_id":"faithful-and-virtuous-night-poems-9780374535773","title":"Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA luminous, seductive new collection from the \"fearless\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLouise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her \u003ci\u003ePoems 1962-2012 \u003c\/i\u003ewas hailed as \"a major event in this country's literature\" in the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003e is no exception. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou 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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night \u003c\/i\u003etells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouise Glück\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Iris\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2014 National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eFaithful and Virtuous Night\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for \u003ci\u003eThe Triumph of Achilles\u003c\/i\u003e, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003c\/i\u003eBook Prize for \u003ci\u003ePoems: 1962-2012\u003c\/i\u003e, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604378063122,"sku":"9780374535773","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f3454c30-9a54-401c-96b9-4ed84720d74f.jpg?v=1732259090","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/faithful-and-virtuous-night-poems-9780374535773","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}