1990, ISBN: b1f5fa11f855e564bd5118a679ead676

edizione con copertina rigida, Prima edizione

[SC: 51.03], [PU: The Ecco Press, New York], ARARAT FIRST EDITION,LOUISE GLüCK EDITION,SIGNED, Jacket, First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's collection of poetry, prompted by… Altro …

[SC: 51.03], [PU: The Ecco Press, New York], ARARAT FIRST EDITION,LOUISE GLüCK EDITION,SIGNED, Jacket, First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's collection of poetry, prompted by the death of her father. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the half-title page, "For ____ ____ with best wishes Louise Gluck." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michaela Sullivan. Jacket illustration by Christa Näher. In 1984, Glück joined the faculty of Williams College in Massachusetts as a senior lecturer in the English Department. The following year, her father died. The loss prompted her to begin a new collection of poems, Ararat (1990), the title of which references the mountain of the Genesis flood narrative. Writing in The New York Times in 2012, the critic Dwight Garner called it "the most brutal and sorrow-filled book of American poetry published in the last 25 years"<

1990, ISBN: b1f5fa11f855e564bd5118a679ead676

edizione con copertina rigida, Prima edizione

[PU: Ecco, New York], Jacket, Hardcover. first edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket.†Louise Gluck's poetry has dazzled critics for years and this year was she won the 2020 Nobel P… Altro …

[PU: Ecco, New York], Jacket, Hardcover. first edition. A fine book in a fine dust jacket.†Louise Gluck's poetry has dazzled critics for years and this year was she won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature.†â€The†judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". In Ararat, Gluck's sixth poetry collection, one critic called the book†"a ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, that confronts, with devastating irony, her father's hollow life and her mother's inability to express emotion."†This is signed by the author on the title page and scarce thus.<

1991, ISBN: b1f5fa11f855e564bd5118a679ead676

edizione con copertina rigida

[PU: Ecco, 1991], Jacket, First edition, first printing Very fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp unread text. Highly attractive. New and bright all around, gift quality.