{"product_id":"9780374613617","title":"Ararat: 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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—”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42369466105917,"sku":"9780374613617","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780374613617_p0.jpg?v=1771588204","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780374613617","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}