I was like a bright light passing through a dark room.” “My story begins very simply: I could speak and I was happy. There is a lot of self-reflection about the writing process – the narrator is a painter, but one cannot help but think that Glück uses him to talk about the craft of writing too. It’s a melancholy collection: full of reminiscences and nostalgic reflection. My favourite is probably the first poem of the collection ,“Parable”.īut I also really enjoyed certain turns of phrase – little couplings that stay with one – especially from the titular poem, “Faithful and virtuous Night” which tells the story of a child and its sibling who are suddenly orphaned, who remains the narrator through the rest of the anthology. It’s a very small collection of Glück’s relatively recent poems (2014). It was only later that I found the hidden pun. I kept thinking it was a quote from somewhere, but I could not quite place it. I don’t often read poetry – but I was really curious about this volume as I really liked the title.
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