{"product_id":"a-village-life","title":"A Village Life","description":"A Village Life, Louise Gluck's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the roads in the village unite at the fountain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fountain rises at the center of the plaza;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eon sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom 'tributaries'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAround the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGluck has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, for the first time, she speaks as 'the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry,' as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines-expansive, fluent, and full-manifesting a calm omniscience. While Gluck's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53787979022674,"sku":"9780374532437","price":15.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_27ec3dc0-77ca-4c7d-a0bb-47a395a640a1.jpg?v=1781793463","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/a-village-life","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}