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Ararat.
by Gluck, Louise
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Ecco Press, 1990. First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's collection of poetry, prompted by the death of her father. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the poet opposite the half-title page, "For Stuart I look forward to your new work, I wish you all good fortune - Louise." The recipient, Stuart Dischell is a fellow poet and friend of Gluck. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket illustration by Michaela Sullivan. Jacket illustration by Christa Naher. In 1984, Gluck joined the faculty of Williams College in Massachusetts as a senior lecturer in the English Department. The following year, her father died. The loss prompted her to begin a new collection of poems, Ararat (1990), the title of which references the mountain of the Genesis flood narrative. Writing in The New York Times in 2012, the critic Dwight Garner called it "the most brutal and sorrow-filled book of American poetry published in the last 25 years"
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Details
- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124951
- Title
- Ararat.
- Author
- Gluck, Louise
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Ararat First Edition, Louise Gluck First Edition, signed
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