![]() ![]() Reading these poems, one feels that all the resources Gluck has developed up until now have been brought to bear, and yet, even more impressively, that she has demanded of herself new and surprising methods. Yet no one could accuse this poet of relaxing into the role of the senior laureate reproducing a signature style. This book follows the widely acclaimed publication in 2012 of Gluck's Poems 1962-2012. What makes Gluck's latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, so powerful is the inventiveness with which the poet responds not only to her own mortality, but to the entirely new vantage on the world that her predicament affords. ![]() Rather, for Gluck and the speakers in her poems, mere survival appears a nearly incredible wonder. ![]() This is not a matter of optimism, or 'recovery' in the conventional sense. For all her disabused austerity, she remains a great poet of renewal. "One reason Gluck has proved so central to American poetry, for five decades now, lies in her remarkable talent for recapturing wonder. ![]()
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