Named a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times, Irish Times, Library Journal, Lit Hub, and NPR

"An exquisitely small collection--the way an atom that contains the world is small--that further solidifies Glück's place as one of the eminent poets of our time . . . These recipes for winter offer a robust meal that feeds both spirit and soul, about the nature of life, and time, prepared by one of our finest poets." --Mandana Chaffa, The Chicago Review of Books

"[Winter Recipes from the Collective] is refreshing in its willingness to confront the uncertainties and anxieties ignited by our current predicament, in which predictions of our collective future alternate between the terrifying and the inscrutable . . . Reading Glück's new poems is a joyful experience, as reading great poetry always is." --Troy Jollimore, The Washington Post

"Winter Recipes from the Collective is . . . a book of fifteen poems ghostly, spectral, and often attenuated . . . These poems have the contemplative force and invitation of haiku. They start deep and sink deeper, happy to be as prosy and plain as a Midwestern summer. This is a brilliant, scary book." --William Logan, The New Criterion

"This is an intensely technical book and a work of extreme concision, in which complicated feelings have been pared down to their minimum and a life's worth of experience reduced to strange, sometimes tender and sometimes ominous detail." --Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books

"[Glück is] a masterful writer who delights in weaving surprises into her poetry. She does not serve up easy interpretations or convenient summaries. And, for a poet who is accused of being too cool for her own good, Glück frequently dabbles in warmth and humor, both qualities amply displayed in this volume." --Robert Israel, The Arts Fuse

"Glück's work builds on an inquiring sense of wonder over our human experience and fortitude . . . The Nobel committee praised the 'austere beauty' of Glück's poems; this marvelous collection adds warmth and wit." --Raúl Niño, Booklist (Starred Review)

"[Glück is] a fastidiously exact truth-teller; her lucid poems pretend to a plainness that's really the simplicity of something more fully worked out than the rest of us can manage . . . [Winter Recipes from the Collective] examines close relationships without the sweetener of correct sentiment, recording the universal stages of human life through a woman's experience." --Fiona Sampson, The Guardian (UK)

"It seems to me that Glück's preoccupations are what poetry is for . . . [Her voice] is dazzlingly, thrillingly cold, like the coldness of nights we call glittering." --Elisa Gabbert, The New York Times

"[Winter Recipes from the Collective] mines the variegated beats of human existence for something shared and intimate . . . beckoning the reader to enter in conversation with one of the great poets of our times." --Kevin Lozano, Vulture

"Glück considers a primary human loneliness in humane, reflective poems that are deeply engaged with the idea of being alone with oneself . . . With this magnificent collection, a great poet delivers a treatise on how to live and die." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

"Louise Glück speaks in softer voices in her first post-Nobel collection . . . [T]here is an unlikely kind of comfort here, as well as a kind of dark resolve, the knowledge that luck and joy are always fleeting . . . Reading her, I feel much less alone." --Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR

"Aside from the complex emotional tenor of these poems, what makes them so readable is the narration--image succeeding image in a convincing flow of perception--and Glück's agile free verse . . . Casual yet perfect, conversational yet inevitable, the verse fully formed yet informal, Glück . . . is a master of lyric narrative." --William Doreski, Harvard Review

"Robert Frost said the work of poetry is 'getting into danger legitimately so that we may be genuinely rescued.' After half a century of sizing up the dangers that disturb the soul, Glück is tending to the redemptive part of the poet's mission." --Andrew Chan, 4 Columns

"Glück's images are crisp and fable-like, her language deceptively accessible, but her poems resist any kind of definitive interpretation: You have to decide what they mean for yourself." --Irene Katz Connelly, Forward