Louise Glück attends the Nationwide E book Awards on Nov. 19, 2014, in New York Metropolis. Robin Marchant/Getty Photographs cover caption
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Louise Glück attends the Nationwide E book Awards on Nov. 19, 2014, in New York Metropolis.
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Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and Poet Laureate of the US from 2003-2004 has died. She was 80 years previous.
Glück’s dying was confirmed by her writer, the MacMillan imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux, on Friday.
“Louise Glück’s poetry provides voice to our untrusting however un-stillable want for data and connection in an usually unreliable world,” mentioned the poet’s longtime editor, Jonathan Galassi, in an announcement. “Her work is immortal.”
Considered one of nation’s most revered poets, Glück took her inspiration from Greek mythology, her personal life, and even on a regular basis issues. For example, her poem about dying, The Wild Iris, is instructed from the attitude of a flower:
“On the finish of my struggling / there was a door. / Hear me out: that which you name dying / I bear in mind.”
“Louise’s voice was wholly its personal, all the time deft and unusual. She constructed up the terrain of lyric poetry — making it new whereas singing its deep previous,” mentioned poet Tess Taylor. “The poems struggled with magnificence. There was an enormous daring in them.”
Over a profession spanning round 5 many years, Gluck’s spare, incisive verse gained fistfuls of awards, together with the Pulitzer Prize, the Nationwide Humanities Medal, and the Nationwide E book Award. She was revealed in The New Yorker and The Atlantic Month-to-month, and served because the Frederick Iseman Professor within the Apply of Poetry at Yale College.
“Louise was a transformative mentor for thus many poets,” mentioned poet and trainer Dana Levin, whose profession was launched after Glück chosen her inaugural assortment for the American Poetry Evaluation/Honickman First E book Prize in 1999. “She had an uncanny potential to see the idiosyncratic genius inside a younger poet, and was really excited to assist it develop.”
Louise Glück’s books on show throughout the announcement of the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature on the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on Oct. 8, 2020. Henrik Montgomery/TT Information Company/AFP through Getty Photographs cover caption
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Glück was born in New York in 1943. Her first e-book was rejected 28 occasions, she mentioned in her Nobel biography. Its publication was adopted by an extended writing drought.
However finally the poet returned to writing. “That it occurred in any respect is a surprise,” she mentioned.
