In 2015, she was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her collection, Poems 1962–2012 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013), was awarded the 2013 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2008, Glück was selected to receive the Wallace Stevens Award for mastery in the art of poetry. She served as judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 2003 to 2010. In the fall of 2003, she was appointed as the Library of Congress’s twelfth poet laureate consultant in poetry. The recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, Glück was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. Her honors include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Glück has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (Ecco Press, 1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. 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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