Who is Louise Gluck?

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Louise Gluck is a contemprary American poet. Born in 1943, she was the American Poet Laureate (2003-04). "After attending Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and Columbia University, New York City, Gluck taught poetry at numerous colleges and universities. Her first collection of poetry, Firstborn(1968), uses a variety of first-person personae, all disaffected or angry. The collection's tone disturbed many critics, but Gluck's exquisitely controlled language and imaginative use of rhyme and metre delighted others. Although its outlook is equally grim, her collection The House on Marshland (1975) shows a greater mastery of voice. There, as in her later volumes, Gluck's personae include historic and mythic figures such as Gretel and Joan of Arc. Her adoption of different perspectives became increasingly imaginative; for example, in "The Sick Child," from the collection Descending Figure (1980), her voice is that of a mother in a museum painting looking out at the bright gallery. The poems in The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, address archetypal subjects of classic myth, Fairy Tales, and the Bible. These concerns are also evident in Ararat (1990), whic.h has been acclaimed for searing honesty in its examination of the family and the self. Later works by Gluck include The Wild Iris (1992), Meadowlands (1996), and The First Five Booksof Poems (1997); she was also editor of The Best American Poetry 1993 (1993)." "Glück, Louise." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2008. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 25 Jan. 2008

Answer 2

Louise Gluck is an American poet known for her lyrical and emotionally powerful poetry. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 for her "unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."