Louise Glück

 

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Marigold and Rose by Louise Glück review – the babies’ tale

The Nobel prize-winning poet’s first novel is a subversive, sophisticated vision of the first year in the lives of twin girls

Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Fiona Sampson
Friday 25 November 2022

When the American poet Louise Glück was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 2020, the Swedish Academy commended her “voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. They might have added that she makes the individual female experience universal, joining it to the canon of male mythology in ways even her titles make clear. The Seven Ages, from 2001 – a stunning reflection on human destiny – was preceded by both The Triumph of Achilles (1985) and Ararat (1990), for example, and followed by Averno (2005), named after the traditional site of the entrance to hell. While her earlier work explores family psychodrama, these books portray the emotional violence of mid-life. In 13 poetry collections and two volumes of essays, Glück’s emotional intelligence never surrenders to cosy consolation, yet the writing remains exquisitely beautiful.

‘At the end of my suffering / there was a door’ … Louise Glück. Photograph: Susan Walsh

Louise Glück: a poet who never shied away from silence, pain or fear

Her work included long periods in which she wrote nothing – and when she did write, she had little sense that it was hers

 Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Colm Tóibín

Tuesday 17 October 2023

 

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ouise Glück was reticent, careful about what she said. She could be distant. There was always a sense that her real life was lived in dreams and memories, in her imagination, in her time alone. With students, sometimes she suggested that they try silence, not working at all. That, she believed, might be best for someone who was writing the wrong poems or producing too much.

Louise Glück

First fiction work by Nobel prize-winning poet Louise Glück to be published in UK

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The 64-page ‘prose narrative’ Marigold and Rose: A Fiction – about twins in the first year of life – will be published in October

Sarah Shaffi
Thursday 25 August 2022

The first work of fiction by American poet and Nobel laureate Louise Glück is to be published in the UK later this year.

Louise Glück, poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 80

Louise Glück

Louise Glück, poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 80

By Max Matza

BBC News

Acclaimed American poet and Nobel laureate in literature Louise Glück has died at the age of 80.

She received a Nobel in 2020, becoming the first American poet to win the honour since TS Eliot more than 70 years earlier.

 

Louise Glück

Louise Glück, Nobel prize-winning poet, dies at 80

Pulitzer prize winner and former US poet laureate was known for her sharp, austere lyrical work

Adrian Horton

Friday 13 October 2023

Louise Glück, the Nobel prize-winning author and a former poet laureate of the United States, has died at the age of 80.

Pablo Neruda / Always

Always

By Pablo Neruda

I am not jealous
of what came before me.

Come with a man
on your shoulders,
come with a hundred men in your hair,
come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet,
come like a river
full of drowned men
which flows down to the wild sea,
to the eternal surf, to Time!

Bring them all
to where I am waiting for you;
we shall always be alone,
we shall always be you and I
alone on earth,
to start our life!