Faithful and Virtuous Night

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Faithful and Virtuous Night is a contemplative, award-winning poetry collection by Louise Glück that explores memory, mortality, and the shifting nature of narrative.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Louise Glück NERFINISHED
awardCategory National Book Award for Poetry winner
awarded National Book Award for Poetry NERFINISHED
awardYear 2014
contains prose poems
verse poems
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed
followedBy Poems 1962–2012 NERFINISHED
genre poetry
hasCentralFigure aging male artist-narrator
hasPart title poem "Faithful and Virtuous Night"
includedIn Louise Glück bibliography
ISBN 9780374152012
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryPeriod contemporary American poetry
narrativeMode first-person
narrativeTechnique fragmented narrative
shifting perspectives
notableFor exploration of mortality
innovative narrative structure
introspective voice
pageCount approximately 80
precededBy A Village Life NERFINISHED
publicationYear 2014
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux NERFINISHED
publisherImprint FSG NERFINISHED
setting England
United States of America
surface form: United States
style contemplative
elliptical
meditative
subjectOf literary criticism
theme aging
childhood
family
loss
memory
mortality
storytelling
the nature of narrative

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Louise Glück notableWork Faithful and Virtuous Night