Louise Gluck was born in 1943 in New York. She is divorced with one son. She started her teaching career in 1971 at Goddard College, Vermont. At present she is a Professor at Williams College and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of seven collections of poems and a volume of essays. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, 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 Nonfiction. Vita Nova won the first annual New Yorker Readers Award. Louise Gluck has been appointed Poet Laureate in the USA.
'Gluck stands at the centre of time and speaks, not with raw emotion or linguistic abandon, but with the ageless urgency of questions about the soul.' - Partisan Review 'Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain.' - Washington Post
In the quietly assured voice one would expect of a Pulitzer Prize winner (for Wild Iris), Gluck refreshes the myth of Persephone. No fancy language here, just absolute precision--the world "bleached, like a negative; the light passed/ directly through it"--that captures contemporary anguish in an ancient and enduring frame. (LJ 12/05) Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
'Gluck stands at the centre of time and speaks, not with raw emotion or linguistic abandon, but with the ageless urgency of questions about the soul.' - Partisan Review 'Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain.' - Washington Post
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