"I walked out of the fire / into a different world—maybe / the world of the dead, for all I know. / Not the end of need but need / raised to the highest power." Much as she did in the National Book Critics Circle Award winner The Triumph of Achilles, Nobel Laureate Louise Glück finds timeless emotional resonance in the Greek myths, which she explores here in such poems as "Inferno," "Eurydice," "Lute Song," "Orfeo," "The Queen of Carthage," "Aubade," and "The Winged Horse."