{"product_id":"gluck-louise-ararat","title":"Glück, Louise: Ararat","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 15, 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing fifth collection of poetry, about \"the myth of a happy family\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArarat\u003c\/i\u003e, Glück's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father. Here she creates a ruthlessly probing family portrait and confronts the difficulties and intricacies of a daughter's relationship to her parents. The result is a subtle and determined collection in which the poet interrogates both her own life and the whole world that emanates from it. \"I was born to a vocation,\" she writes, \"to bear witness \/ to the great mysteries. \/ Now that I've seen both \/ birth and death, I know \/ to the dark nature these \/ are proofs, not \/ mysteries--\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44811500945431,"sku":"9780374613617","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81wrDMTyP_L._SL1500.jpg?v=1773949324","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/gluck-louise-ararat","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}