Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays, thirteen books of poems and one novel. Her many awards included the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the 2014 National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays, thirteen books of poems and one novel. Her many awards included the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the 2014 National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962–2012, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In the collection Meadowlands Louise Glick interweaves the story of a modern divorce with Odysseus’ return to Ithaca, with a rewriting of the myth that gives voice, first and foremost, to the secondary characters. Poetic composition, which followed the publication of the collection The Wild Iris, of great precision and clarity, written with metaphorical density and lyrical intensity, is at once comic and heartbreaking, reflective and not at all melodramatic.
Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for first non-fiction work, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, the testament of a leading poet.
The collection The Triumph of Achilles, written in 1985 by the Nobel Prize-winning poet, is perhaps the most erotic of her rich production. The poems in the collection are the passionate cries of “the one who has been abandoned.”
A collection 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. These poems have the contemplative force and invitation of haiku.
Louise Glück conveys with translucence the sharpness of her vision. This unique poetic synthesis is for the time of flowering and wilting, which masterfully captures the tragic beauty of life in all its forms.
Precision of language, tone, and form is everywhere here, and as “night” calls up mortality, also vision, and ultimately a radical instability at the dream-crux of nocturnal relationships, Louise Glück reaches a mastery that allows for its opposite: “Chaos was what I saw.”
NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE. 2014 National Book Award for Poetry.
