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Louise Glück
Louise Glück is “a strong and haunting presence” among America’s greatest living poets. Her work is distinguished by a rare ability todeploy ostensibly simple language to evoke powerful emotion. While many of her poems clearly address the challenges of life and love in the contemporary world,they are at times informed by the themes and landscapes of classical mythology.She has published 12 volumes of verse to date, including The Seven Ages, VitaNovo, Triumph of Achilles and Averno. Her book The Wild Iris received the 1993Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She has since received virtually every other major awardfor poetry, including the Bollingen Prize in 2001 for her lifetime achievement. In2003, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States.Born in New York City, she began writing at an early age. She studied at SarahLawrence and Columbia University, and although she never took a degree herself,she has spent much of her life teaching in universities. For 20 years, she taught
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Louise Glück is “a strong and haunting presence” among America’s greatest living poets. Her work is distinguished by a rare ability to deploy ostensibly simple language to evoke powerful emotion. While many of her poems clearly address the challenges of life and love in the contemporary world…
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Louise Glück is “a strong and haunting presence” among America’s greatest living poets. Her work is distinguished by a rare ability to deploy ostensibly simple language to evoke powerful emotion. While many of her poems clearly address the challenges of life and love in the contemporary world…
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Louise Glück is “a strong and haunting presence” among America’s greatest living poets. Her work is distinguished by a rare ability todeploy ostensibly simple language to evoke powerful emotion. While many of her poems clearly address the challenges of life and love in the contemporary world,they are at times informed by the themes and landscapes of classical mythology.She has published 12 volumes of verse to date, including The Seven Ages, VitaNovo, Triumph of Achilles and Averno. Her book The Wild Iris received the 1993Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. She has since received virtually every other major awardfor poetry, including the Bollingen Prize in 2001 for her lifetime achievement. In2003, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the United States.Born in New York City, she began writing at an early age. She studied at SarahLawrence and Columbia University, and although she never took a degree herself,she has spent much of her life teaching in universities. For 20 years, she taught
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