Glück as poet: It was a sweet surprise to see the private poet Louise Glück selected as the public manifestation of poetry in the United States in August, 2003. What is the poet’s job? The poem. And Louise Glück has carved a life, struggling into being a great body of work. Dark poems, brilliant lines, and a difficulty-rating based on sinuosity, not Anglo-Saxon clackery.
Glück as teacher: She taught for years at Goddard, helping establish the non-residential poetry course as a counterweight to the Iowa-style workshop; she's currently at Williams.
Books by Louise Glück: Our recommended starting point is her collection The Wild Iris, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993, but there are many more worth reading -- she’s a prolific poet & essayist.
- The Wild Iris (poems, Ecco Press, 1992)
- The Seven Ages (poems, Ecco Press, 2001)
- Vita Nova (poems, Ecco Press, 1999)
- Meadowlands (poems, Ecco Press, 1996)
- First Four Books of Poems (includes Firstborn, The House on Marshland, Descending Figure, The Triumph of Achilles, Ecco Press, 1995)
- Proofs & Theories (essays, Ecco Press, 1994)
- Ararat (poems, Ecco Press, 1992)
