PRÉMIO NOBEL DA LITERATURA 2020
Louise Elisabeth Glück (22 de abril de 1943, Nova Iorque) é autora de mais de uma dúzia de livros de poemas e uma coleção de ensaios. Entre as suas múltiplas distinções encontram-se o Pulitzer, o National Book Critics Circle, o Los Angeles Times Book e o Wallace Stevens da Academia de Poetas americanos. Leciona na Yale University e mora em Cambridge, Massachusetts.
O Prémio Nobel da Literatura de 2020 foi-lhe atribuído, "pela sua inconfundível voz poética que, com austera beleza, torna universal a existência individual".
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the fearless (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as a major event in this country's literature in the pages of The New York Times. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Faithful and Virtuous Night is 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 Night tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.
