A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet

A collection of essays in which the author writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and also dwells on lives and poems. The book includes writings on…

A dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years Louise Gluck has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award and was named US poet laureate for…

Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. This collection shows…

A Study Guide for Louise Gluck’s The Mystery, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…

From a fountain where ‘all the roads in the village unite’, concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain’s stone…

Includes poems of maturation that chronicle the poet’s relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to recapture the unity of youth through comically doomed love affairs that evaporate…

Marigold and Rose is a magical and incandescent fiction from the Nobel laureate Louise Glueck.

"Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V." So…