O volume que reúne os três livros mais recentes da poeta vencedora do Nobel de Literatura 2020 ― Averno, Uma vida no interior e Noite fiel e virtuosa. Louise Glück tem a extraordinária capacidade de jogar luz sobre os aspectos mais variados ― e por vezes sombrios ― da vida. Sua obra, repleta de significados, é fruto de uma profunda curiosidade com tudo o que diz respeito à alma humana. Este volume inclui os três títulos mais recentes da poeta vencedora do prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 2020. Averno (2006) retoma o mito de Perséfone e atualiza a trajetória de uma jovem deusa que, sequestrada, é obrigada a viver no submundo. Uma vida no interior (2009) retrata o dia a dia dos moradores de uma pequena cidade no campo e o modo como se relacionam entre si e com a natureza. Noite fiel e virtuosa (2014), por fim, aborda o envelhecimento, os vínculos familiares e a perda da inocência. Com linguagem límpida e direta, Louise Glück mescla filosofia, mitologia e psicanálise em uma verdadeira pesquisa sobre a solidão, a melancolia e o luto. O resultado é uma poesia fascinante e comovente, a um só tempo misteriosa e reveladora. (fonte: editora)
Author
American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009); Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. In 2001, Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection, The Wild Iris . Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award ( Triumph of Achilles ), the Academy of American Poet's Prize ( Firstborn ), as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Glück also worked as a senior lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served as a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa and taught at Goddard College in Vermont. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches as the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale University and in the creative writing program of Boston University.
