Nobel laureate Louise Glück has died at 80.
FILE - Poet Louise Gluck appears at a ceremony honoring her with the National Humanities Medal in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 22, 2016. Glck's death was confirmed Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80.
Glück was married and divorced twice and had a son, Noah, with her second husband, John Darnow. She taught at several schools, including Stanford University and Yale University, and regarded her experiences in the classroom not as a distraction from her poetry, but as a “prescription for lassitude.” Students would remember her as demanding and inspiring, not above making someone cry, but also valued for guiding young people in search of their own voices.
Glück was too frail to become a full-time college student and instead sat in on classes at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, finding mentors in the poets-teachers Leonie Adams and Stanley Kunitz. By her mid-20s, she was publishing poems in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and other magazines.
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