A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ("The New York Times") Pulitzer Prize-winning poet
Louise Gluck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her "Poems 1962-2012 "was hailed as "a major event in this country's literature" in the pages of "The New York Times." Every new collection is at once a deepening and a revelation. "Faithful and Virtuous Night" is no exception.
You enter the world of this spellbinding book through one of its many dreamlike portals, and each time you enter it's the same place but it has been arranged differently. You were a woman. You were a man. This is a story of adventure, an encounter with the unknown, a knight's undaunted journey into the kingdom of death; this is a story of the world you've always known, that first primer where "on page three a dog appeared, on page five a ball" and every familiar facet has been made to shimmer like the contours of a dream, "the dog float ing] into the sky to join the ball." "Faithful and Virtuous Night "tells a single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder.

Louise Gluck is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris", the National Book Critics Circle Award for "The Triumph of Achilles", the Bollingen Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for "Poems: 1962-2012", and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.