She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University. Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. 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 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.Īmerican poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004. 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. Faithful and Virtuous Night is no exception. Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. Her Poems 1962-2012 was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of The New York Times.
Louise Glück is one of the finest American poets at work today. “Each of these books,” says Oprah, “celebrate love-in their own ways-and it’s this spirit of joy I share with you.” Dip into all six selections below.Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for PoetryĪ luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet In it, she shares her passion for writers like Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Herman Melville-among others-as well as such contemporary authors as Tommy Orange and Colson Whitehead. Also on the list are three literary classics, including a lavishly illustrated edition of Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a 2007 Oprah’s Book Club Selection The Song of the Lark, by Willa Cather and Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston.įinally, there’s Ex-Libris: 100 Books to Read and Reread, by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michiko Kakutani.
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