But, in my hoggish heart, I want things - grapes on plates, Biblical beheading scenes, sea nymphs, sallow Jesuses, people eating pastries on boats, naked Dutch women with fat toes - anything but showily restrained blankness. When I look at all-white paintings, if I work very hard, I can sometimes summon up the requisite feeling of slack peacefulness or (depending on the weather) dread at my impending mortality. the serene transit of the hour hand / no longer represented my perception of time / which had become a sense of immobility / expressed as movement across great distances." It's so restrained, so carefully empty while still giving the illusion of depth (time, perception, movement, distance!). Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems Kindle Edition by Louise Glück (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 508 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 25.00 47 Used from 4.15 12 New from 16.87 3 Collectible from 40.49 Paperback 10.99 47 Used from 2.98 35 New from 6.89 1 Collectible from 36. There is something very like the white canvas in Glück's new collection - words, though obviously chosen with extraordinary care, somehow add up to a blankness - the speaker of one poem, looking at his watch, realizes ". In her new collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, one poem features a painter, aging and facing his own decline, who paints canvases that are "immense and entirely white." "The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary," she once wrote in an essay. Louise Glück is in love with silence - her poems strain towards nothingness. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Faithful and Virtuous Night Subtitle Poems Author Louise Gluck
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