LOUISE GLüCK
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She
is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Averno (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The
Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham
Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books
released her six-part poem "October" as a chapbook.
Her other books include Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received
the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams
Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Library of Congress's Rebekah
Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985),
which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary
Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.
In a review in The New Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote: "Louise Glück
is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of
memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual
distinction of being neither "confessional" nor "intellectual" in the usual
senses of those words."
She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on
Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her honors
include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a
Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal and fellowships from the
Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
In 1999 Glück was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In the
fall of 2003, she replaced Billy Collins as the Library of Congress's twelfth
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. In 2003, she was announced as the new judge
of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, a position she will hold through 2007. She
is a writer-in-residence at Yale University.
Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943 and grew up on Long Island. She
is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Averno (Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The
Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham
Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books
released her six-part poem "October" as a chapbook.
Her other books include Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received
the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams
Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Library of Congress's Rebekah
Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985),
which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary
Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.
In a review in The New Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote: "Louise Glück
is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of
memorable books over the last twenty years, have achieved the unusual
distinction of being neither "confessional" nor "intellectual" in the usual
senses of those words."
She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on
Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her honors
include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a
Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal and fellowships from the
Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the
Arts.
In 1999 Glück was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In the
fall of 2003, she replaced Billy Collins as the Library of Congress's twelfth
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. In 2003, she was announced as the new judge
of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, a position she will hold through 2007. She
is a writer-in-residence at Yale University.