Drawing on classical mythology as well as her own life, she wrote lyrical but precise explorations of childhood, family, loneliness and death.
Poet and essayist Louise Glück in 2016, when she received the National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the White House. Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, who plumbed the depths of human experience with sensitivity and precision en route to winning the Nobel Prize in literature, has died. She was 80.
Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, confirmed her death to the Associated Press on Friday. Additional details were not immediately available.Across her half-century career, Ms. Glück wrote about childhood, family, loneliness and death, drawing inspiration from ancient mythology as well as her own life.
“Glück’s language is staunchly straightforward, remarkably close to the diction of ordinary speech,” critic and editor Wendy Lesser wrote in The Washington Post in 1985, reviewing Ms. Glück’s collection “The Triumph of Achilles,” which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. “Yet her careful selection for rhythm and repetition, and the specificity of even her idiomatically vague phrases, give her poems a weight that is far from colloquial.
Many of her poems seemed to unfold like confessions or conversations between two people, as in “Night Song,” which ended: “You’re like me tonight, one of the lucky ones. / You’ll get what you want. You’ll get your oblivion.”
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