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Glück, Louise Elisabeth was born on April 22, 1943 in New York City. Daughter of Daniel and Beatrice (Grosby) Glück.
( Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regard...)
Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glück's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present. Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
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( Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First N...)
Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, Proofs and Theories is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Glück, whose most recent book of poems, The Wild Iris, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Glück brings to her prose the same precision of language, the same incisiveness and insight that distinguish her poetry. The force of her thought is evident everywhere in these essays, from her explorations of other poets' work to her skeptical contemplation of current literary critical notions such as "sincerety" and "courage." Here also are Glück's revealing reflections on her own education and life as a poet, and a tribute to her teacher and mentor, Stanley Kunitz. Proofs and Theories is the testament of a major poet.
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(A ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, Gluck's si...)
A ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, Gluck's sixth poetry collection confronts, with devastating irony, her father's hollow life and her mother's inability to express emotion. This might seem like a daughter's belated rebellion, except that these fierce, rock-strong, deeply felt lyrics are steeled by love and understanding.
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( A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of p...)
A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place: All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. Avenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees-- The fountain rises at the center of the plaza; on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub. --from "tributaries" Around the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. Glück has been known as a lyrical and dramatic poet; since Ararat, she has shaped her austere intensities into book-length sequences. Here, for the first time, she speaks as "the type of describing, supervising intelligence found in novels rather than poetry," as Langdon Hammer has written of her long lines--expansive, fluent, and full--manifesting a calm omniscience. While Glück's manner is novelistic, she focuses not on action but on pauses and intervals, moments of suspension (rather than suspense), in a dreamlike present tense in which poetic speculation and reflection are possible.
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Glück, Louise Elisabeth was born on April 22, 1943 in New York City. Daughter of Daniel and Beatrice (Grosby) Glück.
Attended, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York. Attended, Columbia University, New York City. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1993.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1995. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Middlebury College, Vermont, 1996.
Faculty undergraduate program Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, 1971—1974, faculty, board member Master of Fine Arts program, 1976—1980. Faculty Williams College, 1980—1984, Scott professor poetry, 1983, Preston Parrish 3rd century lecturer English, 1998—2004. Senior lecturer English University of California at Los Angeles, 1984—1998, Regents professor poetry, 1985—1987.
Adjunct professor English, Rosenkranz writer in residence Yale University, New Haven, since 2004. Faculty creative writing program Boston University. Poet in residence University North Carolina, Greensboro, 1973.
Visiting lecturer University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1973. Visiting professor University Iowa, Iowa City, 1976—1977. Elliston professor poetry University Cincinnati, 1978.
Visiting professor Columbia University, 1979. Holloway lecturer University California, Berkeley, 1982, visiting professor, Davis, 83, Irvine, 84. Magill lecturer University Southern California, 1989.
Phi Beta Kappa poet Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990, Morris Gray lecturer, Massachusetts, 94, visiting professor, Massachusetts, 95. Hurst professor poetry Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1996. Special consultant Library.
Congress, 1999—2000; judge Bakeless Poetry prize, Middlebury College, 2003, Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, Yale University Press, since 2003.
( Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First N...)
( Winner of the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First N...)
( A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of p...)
(A ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, Gluck's si...)
(A ruthlessly probing family portrait in verse, Gluck's si...)
( Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regard...)
(This is the first collection of poems by Louise Glück, wh...)
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Poetry panelist New York Foundation Humanities, 1976, Massachusetts Foundation Arts & Humanities, 1977, 1980. Board directors Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, since 1988. Fellow: American Academy Arts & Sciences.
Member: American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature award 1981), Academy American Poets (chancellor 1999—2005), Phi Beta Kappa (honorary).
Married Charles Hertz (divorced). 1 child, Noah Benjamin. Married John Dranow, 1977 (divorced).