POET

Louise Glück (1943 - )

BIOGRAPHY

Pulitzer-Prize-winner Louise Glück (1943-) grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. Her poems are elegantly poised and spare, even though their themes—loss, disenfranchisement, death—are often dark. She returns again and again to myths and ancient tales, often revivifying them to explore modern topics, as in Meadowlands, which uses Homer’s story of Odysseus and Penelope as the backdrop to the breakdown of a marriage. Many of her poems are attuned to cycles of nature, through which desire and hope are renewed.