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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 ]
Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems revealed visceral truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80. “Louise Glück’s ...
Louise Glück was an American poet and essayist known for her autobiographical poems of intense emotions and drawing mythological and natural imageries in understanding personal life and experiences. Among the recurring themes in her collections are about childhood, family life, relationships and death.
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 ...
The Triumph of Achilles is a collection of poetry by Louise Glück, published in 1985 by Ecco Press. [1] It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. [2] The work concerns themes from classical antiquity and myth. [3] Literary critic Daniel Morris describes it as a "pivotal work" in Glück's oeuvre. [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.
Louise Glück, the witty, candid and uncompromising former U.S. poet laureate who won the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, has died at age 80.
Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.