Faithful and Virtuous Night
 First edition | |
| Author | Louise Glück |
|---|---|
| Genre | Poetry |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 2014 |
Faithful and Virtuous Night is a poetry collection by Louise Glück, published in 2014.
Composition and contents
[edit]The collection alternates between traditional poems and paragraph-long prose poems,[1] marking the first inclusion of prose poems in a book by Glück.[2]
Kathryn Davis, a friend of Glück's, read the collection's poems as they were written.[3] She suggested Glück compose and include its prose poems. Glück drew inspiration from the short works of Franz Kafka while writing the collection.
Reception
[edit]In Boston Review, Craig Morgan Teicher wrote that the collection "[...] may be Glück’s strangest work yet, the hardest to describe or put in line with the others."[4] Writing for NPR, Annalisa Quinn both praise and criticized the collection's abstruseness, referring to the prose poems as "blandly koanic" while also writing that some of the "[...] poems' incompleteness and inscrutability are suggestive rather than prohibitive."[5]
Honors and awards
[edit]Glück received the National Book Award for Poetry for the collection.[6] It was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Rumens, Carol (25 August 2014). "Poem of the week: A Work of Fiction by Louise Glück". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Gonzalez, Elisa (Spring 2015). "An Interview with Louise Glück". Washington Square Review. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Giraldi, William (20 November 2014). "Internal Tapestries: A Q&A With Louise Glück". Poet's & Writers. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Death Mask (8 January 2015). "Death Mask". Boston Review. Boston Review. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Quinn, Annalisa (11 September 2014). "The Ecstatic Blankness Of Poet Louise Glück". NPR.org. NPR. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ "'Redeployment,' 'Age Of Ambition' Win National Book Awards". NPR.org. NPR. 19 November 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
- ^ Flood, Alison (23 October 2014). "TS Eliot prize shortlist joins conflict and reconciliation in the Middle East". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 October 2020.
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