Glück is the very first American woman to receive this award for writing poetry since the literature category was established in 1901.
Louise Glück is one of America’s great poets, a poet of truly tragic stature. Her work is both profound and sometimes shocking. Intensely serious and often surprisingly witty. A common adjective for her writing is “austere,” but that austerity can be ravishingly beautiful and tonally complicated. And these qualities, almost from the very beginning, have been inseparable.
While not all poets get the rewards they deserve, Glück is the rare poet who has won almost every award a poet can win: Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Bollingen Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships. She was the 2003-04 Poet Laureate of the United States, and in 2015 she received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama.
Glück also happens to be one of the handful of Nobel poets to have a substantial connection to Boston — the others are Octavio Paz and Seamus Heaney , Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky . She lives in Cambridge and has been a visiting writer in the creative writing MFA program at BU, though she now teaches at Yale.
Yet without exactly being hopeful, her poems are also about survival — both her own and the survival of the species, of the world. “I did not expect to survive, / earth suppressing me,” she writes in “Snowdrop,” from her Pulitzer Prize-winning book “The Wild Iris,” the poem quoted at the greatest length on herBut this is not a poem in her own voice. It’s the flower — the “Snowdrop” — that’s speaking.
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