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Considered by many to be one of America’s most talented contemporary poets, Glück was known for her poetry’s technical precision, sensitivity, and insight into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death. The poet Robert Hass called her “one of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing.”.
On this list, readers can explore ten of Louise Glück’s best-known poems. These explore powerful themes, like darkness, feminism, loss, and more.
Oct 13, 2023 · There are actually seven poems titled “Matins” in Glück’s Pulitzer-winning 1992 book “The Wild Iris,” along with 10 titled “Vespers” — I told you she was good with sequences — but the one...
Louise Glück was an acclaimed contemporary American Poet and essayist. Her poetry often deals with themes of relationships, despair, and family matters.
The Empty Glass. By Louise Glück. I asked for much; I received much. I asked for much; I received little, I received. next to nothing. And between? A few umbrellas opened indoors. A pair of shoes by mistake on the kitchen table. O wrong, wrong—it was my nature.
Louise Elisabeth Glück ( / ɡlɪk / GLIK; [1] [2] April 22, 1943 – October 13, 2023) was an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, whose judges praised "her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal". [3] .
when you forget where you are. because you’ve been living, it seems, somewhere else, in the silence of the night sky. You’ve stopped being here in the world. You’re in a different place, a place where human life has no meaning. You’re not a creature in a body.
Oct 8, 2020 · The poet and essayist Louise Glück has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. For those unfamiliar with her work, we’ve made a list of five collections to check out, along with excerpts...
Afterword. By Louise Glück. Reading what I have just written, I now believe. I stopped precipitously, so that my story seems to have been. slightly distorted, ending, as it did, not abruptly. but in a kind of artificial mist of the sort. sprayed onto stages to allow for difficult set changes.
Persephone the Wanderer. Louise Glück. 1943 –. 2023. In the first version, Persephone. is taken from her mother. and the goddess of the earth. punishes the earth—this is. consistent with what we know of human behavior,
