Firstborn

Louise Gluck's beautiful poetry is introduced for the first time by this volume, which gathers her early poems. They have been said to "give us a sense of defiled life made whole again by courage, wit and intelligence." The Award-Winning laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, in 2003, she is considered one of America's most talented contemporary poets, with an insight in loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death.