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Marigold and Rose

  • ISBN-13: 9781800172951
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Louise Gluck
  • Price: AUD $32.99
  • Stock: 98 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 10/01/2023
  • Format: Hardback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 64 pages Weight: 200g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2020, for 'her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal', Louise Gluck takes a new direction in a fable which returns to essential questions, of identity and belonging, of desire and the creative impulse. The twins, Marigold and Rose, in their first year, begin to piece together the world as they move between Mother's stories of 'Long, long ago' and Father's 'Once upon a time'. Impressions, repeated, begin to make sense. The rituals of bathing and burping are experienced differently by each. The story is about beginnings, each of which is an ending of what has come before. There is comedy in the progression, the stages of recognition, and in the ironic anachronisms which keep the babies alert, surprised, prescient and resigned. Charming, resonant, written with Gluck's characteristic poise and curiosity, Marigold and Rose unfolds as a new kind of creation myth.
Louise Gluck is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the 2014 National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems: 1962-2012, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
'Gluck speaks to our time in a voice that is onstage, but heard from the wings' - Publishers Weekly
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