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2023.002.001

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CD record

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In the four years it took her to write the poems in Averno, Louise Glück listened intensely to this CD of Gustav Mahler. She described how important music was to her writing in a letter sent to the Nobel Prize Museum in connection with her donation of the CD:
“For most of my life, the writing of a book has been preceded (often by several years) by obsessive listening to a particular piece of music. I say the writing of a book as though there were a matter of steady application toward a calculated end. But in my experience, writing is erratic, a kind of possessed fluency alternating with a steady silence. Only the music is both inspired and steady; it seems to me my poems emerge from it.
During the four years in which AVERNO was written, this is what I listened to. A few readers who knew nothing of my writerly habits heard Mahler, especially in 'October' – a tribute, I think, to the music’s haunted strangeness.”

Louise Glück donated the CD to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2023.

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Louise Glück