Louise Glück (1943–2023)
Author of The Wild Iris
About the Author
Louise Elizabeth Gluck, 1943 - Louise Gluck was born April 22, 1943 in New York City, New York. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, both in New York State. She is best known for her award winning collection entitled "The Wild Iris". After show more graduation, Gluck began teaching poetry, accepting positions at various colleges and universities. In 1968, her first collection entitled "Firstborn" was published. Seven years later she published "The House on the Marshland", and in 1985, "The Triumph of Achilles" won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. In 1993, she was an editor of The Best American Poetry anthology. Her last appointment was as Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College. Louise Gluck is considered one of the most gifted poets of her generation. Known for her well-crafted use of verse and meter, she first garnered attention with "Firstborn", a collection of poetry from 1968. Full of angry emotion and disturbing tone, her poetry deals with the horrible and painful. In 1985, "The Triumph of Achilles" was released to thunderous applause, gaining awards in every category. It received the National Book Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. Gluck has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannas Literary Award for Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowments for the Arts. Her collection "Ararat", (1990) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbett National Prize for Poetry. Other collections include "The Garden" and "The Wild Iris". The "Wild Iris", perhaps her most award winning collection acquired the highest honor possible in 1993, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award In 1994 she was named Poet Laureate of Vermont, and was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003, she was named Poet Laureat of the United States. She was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Louise Glück
Associated Works
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,306 copies, 9 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 947 copies, 7 reviews
The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors (1995) — Contributor — 248 copies, 4 reviews
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection (1996) — Contributor — 241 copies, 3 reviews
No More Masks: An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets (1993) — Contributor, some editions — 213 copies, 3 reviews
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia (2008) — Contributor — 80 copies, 1 review
Green Squall (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2006) — Introduction, some editions — 71 copies, 2 reviews
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Contributor — 69 copies
The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales (2003) — Contributor — 67 copies, 1 review
Orpheus and Company: Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology (1999) — Contributor — 48 copies, 1 review
The Best American Poetry 2022 (The Best American Poetry series) (2022) — Contributor — 46 copies, 1 review
Poetry Magazine Vol. 109 No. 6, March 1967 — Contributor — 2 copies
Antaeus No. 37, Spring 1980 - On the Poetry of Stanley Kunitz — Contributor — 2 copies
Antaeus No. 18, Summer 1975 — Contributor — 2 copies
Antaeus No. 23, Autumn 1976 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Glück, Louise
- Legal name
- Glück, Louise Elisabeth
- Birthdate
- 1943-04-22
- Date of death
- 2023-10-13
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Education
- Sarah Lawrence College
Columbia University - Occupations
- poet
professor (English)
essayist - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1996)
Academy of American Poets (Chancellor)
Yale University
Stanford University - Awards and honors
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (2003-2004)
Bollingen Prize (2001)
Lannan Literary Award ( [1999])
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award ( [1981])
Wallace Stevens Award (2008)
Aiken Taylor Award (2010) (show all 7)
Nobel Prize in Literature (2020) - Agent
- Steven Barclay Agency
- Short biography
- Louise Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Her first book of poetry, Firstborn, appeared in 1968. She's considered by many to be one of America's most talented contemporary poets. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. She teaches at Yale University, where she is the Rosencranz Writer-in-Residence.
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Landscapes by Louise Glück - New Letterpress Chapbook by Thornwillow Press in Fine Press Forum (October 2021)
Reviews
Gluck is an amazing conceptual poet. And its here her ideas shine. Gluck tends to be very academic and sometimes inaccessible, however here she bends down the branch for you to pick from. Not every poem was great, and her style is ordinary, but there were a few poems that really shone, and I think they're worth reading and remembering.
Arguments with god and mortality in a garden. The garden is the ubiquitous artifact observed occasionally through a window or from a porch. He appears, sometimes with a rake. But made objects are so scarce that when Presque Isle presents us with a dish a table within walls, a balcony sheet, and more we are overwhelmed with the human world and humanity, ripped like a wild flower from the melancholy contemplation of a brief, sometimes blighted, life.
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We have burned away
all that was written on them.