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 Today, American poet Louise Glück was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.”
Currently an English professor at Yale University, Glück's career has spanned over five decades, twelve poetry collections, two essay collections, and numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris and the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night.
Congratulations to Louise Glück! Check out her books below.
—The Bookshop team |
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The Wild Iris
“To be one thing / is to be next to nothing,” Glück challenges the reader. “Is it enough / only to look inward?” |
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Poems 1962-2012
To read these books together is to understand the governing paradox of a life lived in the body and of the work wrested from it, the one fated to die and the other to endure. |
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The First Four Books
of Poems
In her first four poetry books, we see the conscious progression of a poet who speaks with blade-like accuracy and stirring depth. |
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Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems
A single story but the parts are mutable, the great sweep of its narrative mysterious and fateful, heartbreaking and charged with wonder. |
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Vita Nova
A book that exists in the long moment of spring, a book of deaths and beginnings, resignation and hope, brutal, luminous, and farseeing. |
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Meadowlands
Explores a contemporary marriage through The Odyssey and ponders the “unanswerable / affliction of the human heart: how to divide / the world’s beauty into acceptable / and unacceptable loves.” |
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Averno: Poems
An extended lamentation . . . long, restless poems without conventional resolution or consolation. A diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present. |
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Proofs & Theories
Explorations of other poets’ work . . . revealing reflections on her own education and life as a poet. |
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A Village Life
“All the roads in the village unite at the fountain. . . . on sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.” |
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The Seven Ages
Glück stares down her own death, and, in so doing, simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. |
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American Originality: Essays on Poetry
Glück comprehends and destabilizes notions of “narcissism” and “genius” that are unique to the American literary climate. |
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