Faithful and Virtuous Night by Louise Glück

Paperback, read September 2020

I know that a lot of people who read poetry want more than a story with line breaks, but I like stories and I like line breaks, and I love feeling the difference between a story and a poem in the breaths in, and out, in the lilt and sway of language and syntax. These poems are stories, they are so absolutely inarguably stories, fantastical stories with lively characters and plot twists, but they are also so fundamentally poems, exquisitely structured and broken and lilting. This book is a whole world, and I have loved stepping into it every now and then for another story or two every couple of months. This book felt like magic, like the easiest magic in the world, like being alive despite the circumstances is all it takes to be magical.