In 1943, Louise Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island.
She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Poems
1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012); A Village Life: Poems
(2009); Averno (2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in
Poetry; The Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of
Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's
Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem "October" as a chapbook.
Her other books include Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris
(1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's
William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the
Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and
The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics
Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of
America's Melville Kane Award.
In a review in The New Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote:
"Louise Glück is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published
in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the
unusual distinction of being neither "confessional" nor "intellectual" in the usual
senses of those words."
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She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Poems
1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012); A Village Life: Poems
(2009); Averno (2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in
Poetry; The Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of
Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's
Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem "October" as a chapbook.
Her other books include Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris
(1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's
William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the
Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and
The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics
Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of
America's Melville Kane Award.
In a review in The New Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote:
"Louise Glück is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published
in a series of memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the
unusual distinction of being neither "confessional" nor "intellectual" in the usual
senses of those words."
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/82