WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryA
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.
