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A village life

Paperback • 2020 • English • 1. edition

A village life

By Louise Glück

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About the book

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain - the fountain's stone counterpart, where the roads end, human time superimposed on geological time. Renowned as a lyrical poet of austere intensity, in A Village Life Louise Glück evokes a Mediterranean world with luminous precision. Her focus is on moments of speculation and reflection in a dreaml...Show more

Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
Poetry by individual poets

Book details

ISBN

9781847770592

Publisher

Carcanet

Published year

2020

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

A village life

Format

Paperback

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