Gluck, a poet of unblinking candor and notion who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet recollections and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, handed away on Friday.
American poet Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel and Pulitzer prizes for her distinctively austere writing, has died, a Yale College spokeswoman advised AFP on Friday, October 13. The New York native, 80, most lately taught at Yale as a poetry professor. She died of most cancers, The New York Occasions reported, citing buddy and former Yale colleague Richard Deming, on Friday at her house in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Gluck was the 2020 Nobel laureate in literature, the 16th girl to win the award. Her idols included different winners of the identical prize, resembling William Butler Yeats (1923) and T.S. Eliot (1948). Like theirs, the austerity of her poetry was a supply of power: “The unsaid, for me, exerts nice energy,” she wrote in a group of essays on poetry, “Proofs and Theories.”
Gluck’s work was knowledgeable by topics resembling nature’s easy magnificence and a toddler’s expertise of the world, coupled with the daring storylines of mythology. Her 2020 Nobel Prize honored her for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere magnificence makes particular person existence common.” The winner of a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her assortment “The Wild Iris,” Gluck grew to become a professor regardless of by no means ending school herself.
She grew up in Lengthy Island, New York, the descendant on her father’s facet of Hungarian Jews who emigrated within the early twentieth century. She was additionally the winner of a Nationwide Guide Award and served because the US Poet Laureate from 2003 to 2004.
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