{"product_id":"ararat-poems","title":"Ararat: Poems: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new edition of the Nobel laureate's searing fifth collection of poetry, about \"the myth of a happy family\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouise Glück, the winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, was an era-defining poet: innovative, brave, and wholly individual. Her work has left an indelible mark on the literature of our nation and of the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eArarat\u003c\/i\u003e, Glück's fifth collection of poetry, centers on the death of her father. Here she creates a ruthlessly probing family portrait and confronts the difficulties and intricacies of a daughter's relationship to her parents. The result is a subtle and determined collection in which the poet interrogates both her own life and the whole world that emanates from it. \"I was born to a vocation,\" she writes, \"to bear witness \/ to the great mysteries. \/ Now that I've seen both \/ birth and death, I know \/ to the dark nature these \/ are proofs, not \/ mysteries--\"","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53862817202542,"sku":"9780374613617","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_c9e37112-d05d-482a-9944-3017be57ce4c.jpg?v=1780241392","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/ararat-poems","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}