ISBN10: 0374607583, ISBN13: 9780374607586, [publisher: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. Signed. 55 pages. Published in 2022. The poet's debut work of fiction, and last book. One of Louise Gluck's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Louise Gluck's "Marigold And Rose: A Fiction". Magical, incandescent, and sublime: An imaginative view of the world of babyhood as human "spatial" consciousness, that is to say, BEFORE "temporal" consciousness, or time. Time traps humans, but not babies, as beings-in-time, as beings-in-the-world, and therefore inescapably, as beings-towards-death (in Gluck's neat, poetic reversal of Heidegger's Existentialist philosophy). As grownups, that curious word, we then attempt to defy time by positing an after-time that we call the afterlife. "Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multi-generational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis', an incandescent act of autobiography. Shot through with a sense of stoic wonder, this small miracle of a book, following thirteen books of poetry and two collections of essays, is unlike anything Gluck has written, while at the same ...