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. Louise Glück is a poet of strong and haunting presence. In a review in The New Republic, the critic Helen Vendler wrote: Glück’s other award-winning books include The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990), for which she received the Library of Congress’s Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry and The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 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 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem “ October” as a chapbook. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), which won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry Averno (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry and Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker’s Book Award in Poetry. Louise Glück was born in New York City on April 22, 1943, and grew up on Long Island.
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