Also of interest...in notable poetry

Louise Glück, The Taliban, Adrienne Rich, David Ferry

Poems 1962–2012

by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40)The publication of this career-spanning collection from Louise Glück is “a major event in this country’s literature, perhaps this year’s most major,” said Dwight Garner in The New York Times. Glück’s “exacting free verse” has no parallel. The 11 previous collections gathered here “have a great novel’s cohesiveness and raking moral intensity.” Her best poems, including those from 1990’s Ararat, are “confessional and a bit wild, but also intellectually formidable.”

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