Winter recipes from cooperative farms

Winter Recipes from the Collective

This book is the final poetry collection of Louise Glück, the 2020 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. Comprising 15 poems (including two cycles), it expresses the recollection of past events and the reflection on past life experiences as the body approaches its end. These poems possess a strong narrative quality. For example, in "Winter Recipes from a Cooperative Farm," the author describes the preparation and trimming of moss, evoking the fragility of life and the approach of death. In "The Denial of Death," she describes the experience of losing her passport in a hotel and the act of saying goodbye to a past life.
Compared to "The Night of Loyalty," this book has a greater sense of fate. The poet no longer contemplates her childhood and past in a self-exploratory manner, but rather is prepared to face the end. For example, she vividly describes the experience of herself and her sister in the hospital as they aged and accepted the decline of life. This is a book that condenses Glück's life experience and exudes a cool beauty.
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This collection of poems further solidifies Glück's position as the preeminent poet of our time...These winter recipes provide powerful nourishment for the mind and soul, about the nature of life and timing.
—Chicago Review of Books
The Co-op Farm Winter Cookbook aims to combat the uncertainty and anxiety caused by our current predicament.
—The Washington Post
A work of exquisite simplicity, in which complex emotions are reduced to a minimum and a lifetime of experience is condensed into details that are sometimes tender and sometimes ominous.
—The New York Review of Books
Glück's poetry comes from wonder and questioning about human experience and perseverance... In addition to the "cold beauty" as described by the Nobel Prize in Literature Committee, the collection of poems "Winter Recipes from the Cooperative Farm" also adds warmth and wit to her writing.
——Booklist magazine

Glück is an extremely precise depictor of facts. Her clear poems, seemingly plain, are actually the result of exquisite skills that others find difficult to achieve... This collection of poems records the various stages of human life through the experience of a woman.
—The Guardian
It was blindingly, shockingly cold, like the coolness of the night we describe as "silver and shimmering."
—The New York Times
This collection of poems unearths something common and intimate from the many jagged beats of human existence...it calls the reader into conversation with one of the greatest poets of our time.
--Vulture magazine Glück examines a fundamental human loneliness. These compassionate and contemplative poems deeply depict the experience of being alone... This unparalleled collection of poems discusses the questions of how to live and how to die.
——Publishers Weekly

2024-04-20

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

120

9787208187320