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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 poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.
Glück's death was confirmed Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. A former student of Glück's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jorie Graham, said that the author had ...
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American poet Mary Karr for whom Glück served as a thesis adviser expressed disappointment, saying: "At this point in history, Louise Glück – my grad thesis advisor [and] a poet I deeply admire – wrote a minstrel show Nobel speech. In 1789, Blake's 'Black Boy' might have passed as 'abolitionist', but it came out of a shoe-polished white face.
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.
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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.