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Louise Gluck was born in 1943 in New York and grew up on Long Island. She started her teaching career in 1971 at Goddard College, Vermont. At present she is a Professor at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of eleven books of poems and a volume of essays. She has won the Pulitzer Prize (for Wild Iris in 1992), the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt National Poetry Prize and the Ambassador's Award for her poetry, as well as the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for Non-fiction. Her 2000 collection Vita Nova won the first annual New Yorker Readers Award. In 2009 she delivered the Blashfield Foundation address at the American Academy. Louise Gluck is also a former US Poet Laureate and teaches at Yale University.

LAGO D'AVERNO (Avernus in Latin) is a volcanic crater lake, 10 miles west of Naples. read more

After years of writing her own distinct poetry with little or no favourable recognition from critics, Louise Gluck finally did, as she herself relates, 'return from oblivion/ to find a voice'. read more

When I tell you that Louise Gluck's A Village Life is a book of poems set in a quietly dying agricultural community, probably in Italy, probably some time between the 1950s and today, and thats its plots - for it works very much like a collection of linked short stories - revolve around sexual awakening, farm work and old men gossiping in cafes, you will no doubt think: wistful, polite, conservative, the poetic equivalent of a landscape done in watercolour. read more

The beauty of Louise Gluck's image-making and her icily lucid voice fascinate and repel. read more

Louise Gluck, who was born in New York in 1943, and teahces at Yale as the Rosencratz Writer in Residence, has published 11 collections of poetry, including The Triumph of Achilles (1985), The Wild Iris (1992), for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Meadowlands (1996). read more

Set in a village somewhere in the western Mediterranean sometime in the last 50 years, Louise Glück's captivating 11th collection is full of spacious, carefully balanced monologues and narratives. read more

The Irish Times 'Around the fountain, in the right room' by Enda Wyley LOUISE GLÜCK’S 12th collection, A Village Life , is a striking departure in form from her usual spare, chiselled style – instead relying upon longer lines and a Spoon River -like narrative coherence to achieve an impressive novelistic effect. read more

Spring 2010 � Conversational Tones Modern American poetry often seems to have an assured, inconsequential sense of drift unavailable to English writers. read more

Averno is Louise Gluck's best book in at least ten years, perhaps her best since The Wild Iris (1992). read more

Helen Farish, The Times Literary Supplement
The American poet Louise Gluck tells us that "Spiritual hunger has driven my work from the beginning". read more

Ilya Kaminsky, Libraryjournal.com read more

Publishers Weekly, 21st October 2005 :
In a collection as good as her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris (1992), Gluck gives the Persephone myth a staggering new meaning, casting that forlorn daughter as a soul caught in 'an argument between the mother and the lover.' read more

The Guardian Saturday 6th March 1999

Proofs and Theories, by Louise Gl�ck (Carcanet, �9.95) read more

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Louise Gluck Books by this author: A Village Life Averno The Seven Ages Vita Nova Proofs and Theories Meadowlands The First Five Books of Poems The Wild Iris About Reviews Louise Gluck was born in 1943 in New York and grew up on Long Island. She started her teaching career in 1971 at Goddard College, Vermont. At present she is a Professor at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of eleven books of poems and a volume of essays. She has won the Pulitzer Prize (for Wild Iris in 1992), the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt National Poetry Prize and the Ambassador's Award for her poetry, as well as the PEN / Martha Albrand Award for Non-fiction. Her 2000 collection Vita Nova won the first annual New Yorker Readers Award. In 2009 she delivered the Blashfield Foundation address at the American Academy. Louise Gluck is also a former US Poet Laureate and teaches at Yale University. LAGO D'AVERNO (Avernus in Latin) is a volcanic crater lake, 10 miles west of Naples. read more After years of writing her own distinct poetry with little or no favourable recognition from critics, Louise Gluck finally did, as she herself relates, 'return from oblivion/ to find a voice'. read more When I tell you that Louise Gluck's A Village Life is a book of poems set in a quietly dying agricultural community, probably in Italy, probably some time between the 1950s and today, and thats its plots - for it works very much like a collection of linked short stories - revolve around sexual awakening, farm work and old men gossiping in cafes, you will no doubt think: wistful, polite, conservative, the poetic equivalent of a landscape done in watercolour. read more The beauty of Louise Gluck's image-making and her icily lucid voice fascinate and repel. read more Louise Gluck, who was born in New York in 1943, and teahces at Yale as the Rosencratz Writer in Residence, has published 11 collections of poetry, including The Triumph of Achilles (1985), The Wild Iris (1992), for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Meadowlands (1996). read more Set in a village somewhere in the western Mediterranean sometime in the last 50 years, Louise Glück's captivating 11th collection is full of spacious, carefully balanced monologues and narratives. read more The Irish Times 'Around the fountain, in the right room' by Enda Wyley LOUISE GLÜCK’S 12th collection, A Village Life , is a striking departure in form from her usual spare, chiselled style – instead relying upon longer lines and a Spoon River -like narrative coherence to achieve an impressive novelistic effect. read more Spring 2010 � Conversational Tones Modern American poetry often seems to have an assured, inconsequential sense of drift unavailable to English writers. read more Averno is Louise Gluck's best book in at least ten years, perhaps her best since The Wild Iris (1992). read more Helen Farish, The Times Literary Supplement The American poet Louise Gluck tells us that "Spiritual hunger has driven my work from the beginning". read more Ilya Kaminsky, Libraryjournal.com read more Publishers Weekly, 21st October 2005 : In a collection as good as her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Wild Iris (1992), Gluck gives the Persephone myth a staggering new meaning, casting that forlorn daughter as a soul caught in 'an argument between the mother and the lover.' read more The Guardian Saturday 6th March 1999 Proofs and Theories, by Louise Gl�ck (Carcanet, �9.95) read more	Share this... Quick Links Aspects of Portugal Audio Books Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Carcanet Poetry Comma Press FyfieldBooks Lintott Press Lives and Letters OxfordPoets PN Review Sheep Meadow Press The Carcanet Blog Book Launch: Distance and Memory by Peter Davidson read more Sam Ruddock: Bibliodiversity read more Lucy Burnett: An Eco-poetic Sensibility read more Chris Beckett: Looking for Abebe, the cook's son read more Richard Price: A Month in Portugal read more Let's Gimbal! read more
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