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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.
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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 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]
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 ...