The Triumph of Achilles

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The Triumph of Achilles is a poetry collection by Louise Glück that explores themes of vulnerability, mortality, and myth through spare, emotionally intense verse.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Louise Glück NERFINISHED
awarded National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry NERFINISHED
awardYear 1985
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed
follows Descending Figure
genre poetry
hasPoem Marathon NERFINISHED
Mock Orange NERFINISHED
Mythic Fragment
The Fear of Burial NERFINISHED
The Garden NERFINISHED
The Night Migrations NERFINISHED
The Reproach NERFINISHED
The Triumph of Achilles (poem) NERFINISHED
influenced contemporary American poetry
ISBN 9780880010375
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
mediaType print
notableFor intense exploration of female subjectivity
reimagining classical myth in a modern psychological register
pageCount 64
partOfAuthorCareerPhase early work of Louise Glück
precedes Ararat NERFINISHED
publicationYear 1985
publisher Ecco Press NERFINISHED
style emotional intensity
free verse
mythic allusion
spare diction
subject Achilles NERFINISHED
Greek mythology
theme human suffering
identity
isolation
loss
love
mortality
myth
vulnerability

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Louise Glück notableWork The Triumph of Achilles