Louise Gl�ck is the author of two collections of essays and more than a dozen books of poems. 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 Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times, Irish Times,
Library Journal, Lit Hub, and NPR
"An exquisitely small collection--the way an atom that contains the
world is small--that further solidifies Gl�ck's place as one of the
eminent poets of our time . . . These recipes for winter offer a
robust meal that feeds both spirit and soul, about the nature of
life, and time, prepared by one of our finest poets." --Mandana
Chaffa, The Chicago Review of Books "[Winter Recipes from the
Collective] is refreshing in its willingness to confront the
uncertainties and anxieties ignited by our current predicament, in
which predictions of our collective future alternate between the
terrifying and the inscrutable . . . Reading Gl�ck's new poems is a
joyful experience, as reading great poetry always is." --Troy
Jollimore, The Washington Post "Winter Recipes from the Collective
is . . . a book of fifteen poems ghostly, spectral, and often
attenuated . . . These poems have the contemplative force and
invitation of haiku. They start deep and sink deeper, happy to be
as prosy and plain as a Midwestern summer. This is a brilliant,
scary book." --William Logan, The New Criterion "This is an
intensely technical book and a work of extreme concision, in which
complicated feelings have been pared down to their minimum and a
life's worth of experience reduced to strange, sometimes tender and
sometimes ominous detail." --Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review
of Books "[Gl�ck is] a masterful writer who delights in weaving
surprises into her poetry. She does not serve up easy
interpretations or convenient summaries. And, for a poet who is
accused of being too cool for her own good, Gl�ck frequently
dabbles in warmth and humor, both qualities amply displayed in this
volume." --Robert Israel, The Arts Fuse
"Gl�ck's work builds on an inquiring sense of wonder over our human
experience and fortitude . . . The Nobel committee praised the
'austere beauty' of Gl�ck's poems; this marvelous collection adds
warmth and wit." --Ra�l Ni�o, Booklist (Starred Review) "[Gl�ck is]
a fastidiously exact truth-teller; her lucid poems pretend to a
plainness that's really the simplicity of something more fully
worked out than the rest of us can manage . . . [Winter Recipes
from the Collective] examines close relationships without the
sweetener of correct sentiment, recording the universal stages of
human life through a woman's experience." --Fiona Sampson, The
Guardian (UK) "It seems to me that Gl�ck's preoccupations are what
poetry is for . . . [Her voice] is dazzlingly, thrillingly cold,
like the coldness of nights we call glittering." --Elisa Gabbert,
The New York Times "[Winter Recipes from the Collective] mines the
variegated beats of human existence for something shared and
intimate . . . beckoning the reader to enter in conversation with
one of the great poets of our times." --Kevin Lozano, Vulture
"Gl�ck considers a primary human loneliness in humane, reflective
poems that are deeply engaged with the idea of being alone with
oneself . . . With this magnificent collection, a great poet
delivers a treatise on how to live and die." --Publishers Weekly
(Starred Review) "Louise Gl�ck speaks in softer voices in her first
post-Nobel collection . . . [T]here is an unlikely kind of comfort
here, as well as a kind of dark resolve, the knowledge that luck
and joy are always fleeting . . . Reading her, I feel much less
alone." --Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR "Aside from the complex
emotional tenor of these poems, what makes them so readable is the
narration--image succeeding image in a convincing flow of
perception--and Gl�ck's agile free verse . . . Casual yet perfect,
conversational yet inevitable, the verse fully formed yet informal,
Gl�ck . . . is a master of lyric narrative." --William Doreski,
Harvard Review "Robert Frost said the work of poetry is 'getting
into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.'
After half a century of sizing up the dangers that disturb the
soul, Gl�ck is tending to the redemptive part of the poet's
mission." --Andrew Chan, 4 Columns "Gl�ck's images are crisp and
fable-like, her language deceptively accessible, but her poems
resist any kind of definitive interpretation: You have to decide
what they mean for yourself." --Irene Katz Connelly, Forward
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