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Meadowlands is a 1996 poetry book by Louise Glück. [1] The 80-page collection, published by Ecco, is Glück's seventh poetry collection. [2] Via a retelling of the Odyssey, [3] Glück explores love through the life and deterioration of a marriage.
Louise Elisabeth Glück (/ ɡ l ɪ k / 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]
The collection alternates between traditional poems and paragraph-long prose poems, [1] marking the first inclusion of prose poems in a book by Glück. [2] Kathryn Davis, a friend of Glück's, read the collection's poems as they were written. [3] She suggested Glück compose and include its prose poems.
Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of ...
Averno or Lake Avernus is a lake west of Naples that the Romans mythologized as the entrance to the underworld. The Greek myth of Demeter's daughter Persephone and her marriage to Hades is a recurring topic in the collection, as are the themes of oblivion and death, soul and body, love and isolation.
A professor of English at Yale University, Gluck first rose to critical acclaim with her 1968 collection of poems entitled "Firstborn", and went on to become one of the most celebrated poets and ...
Poster promoting a poetry reading on January 21, 1977, by Louise Glück at the Poetry Center at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Favourites to win the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature included Canadian poet Anne Carson , Antigua-American writer Jamaica Kincaid , Chinese novelist Yan Lianke , Russian writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Kenyan ...
The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry book by Louise Glück for which she received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993. [1] The book also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award .