WINTER RECIPES FROM THE COLLECTIVE: POEMS

Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 2021. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 2021. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 68 pages. Rare Louise Gluck collectible set. A fine copy of "Winter Recipes From The Collective" First Hardcover Edition/First Printing, signed, with a pristine copy of the Souvenir Compact Disc (CD) of Louise Gluck's recorded readings for the Academy of American Poets. The author's thirteenth - and final - collection of poems. Louise Gluck's triumphant, post-Nobel Prize collection. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. The CD is also now rare. Presents Louise Gluck's "Winter Recipes From The Collective". Her valedictory message: How poetic wisdom sustains life itself. "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, Gluck is tending to the redemptive part of the poet's mission. In doing so, she is able to draw on the benefits of age: Looking back on past periods of darkness, she's in a position to tell us with some authority that they are survivable (and worth surviving). I imagine I'll be finding solace in this book for the rest of my life" (Andrew Chan). That is indeed quite moving. But surely, Louise Gluck does not intend to be your consoler/therapist, or poetry to be therapeutic, not intentionally at any rate. Her greatest achievement is precisely that she has found a permanent way out of the confessional mode - otherwise so irresistible - that most, not just some, contemporary American poets continue to wallow in, especially the "identity-politics"/"woke" kind (feminist, "patriotic"/uber-masculine, LGBTQ, etcetera). The point is not to reject identity, but to transcend it, in all of its narcissistic forms, as all great art does. "The book contains / only recipes for winter, when life is hard. In spring / anyone can make a fine meal" (Louise Gluck). Louise Gluck (unexpectedly) died on October 13, 2023 at the age of 80. An absolute "must-have" title for Louise Gluck collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen upon her bookplate by Louise Gluck. Supplied by Gluck herself, the bookplate is beautiful, is encased in its own protective sheet, and laid into the book. It comes with a pristine copy of the Academy of American Poets' "Louise Gluck: Live Readings" Compact Disc (CD), the only such copy available online. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only copy (with Signed Bookplate) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing and CD available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: The brown "spotting" on the white DJ is printed, as part of the Chinese-inspired, rustic DJ design, NOT actual or real. Copies available online have very serious flaws, are in subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare set thus. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 for "The Triumph of Achilles". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for "The Wild Iris". America's Poet Laureate in 2003 and 2004. Winner of the Nobel Prize For Literature in 2020. One of the greatest poet/writers of our time. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER LOUISE GLUCK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 037460410X.