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Louise Glück


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
April 22, 1943

Died
October 13, 2023

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American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.

Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.

She was the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009); Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Librar
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Average rating: 4.17 · 101,234 ratings · 14,144 reviews · 97 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Wild Iris

4.18 avg rating — 15,435 ratings — published 1992 — 33 editions
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Averno

4.19 avg rating — 7,296 ratings — published 2006 — 38 editions
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Faithful and Virtuous Night

3.93 avg rating — 6,101 ratings — published 2014 — 32 editions
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Winter Recipes from the Col...

3.95 avg rating — 4,139 ratings — published 2021 — 36 editions
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Marigold and Rose

3.66 avg rating — 3,716 ratings — published 2022
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Meadowlands

4.09 avg rating — 2,641 ratings — published 1996 — 29 editions
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Ararat

4.13 avg rating — 2,439 ratings — published 1992 — 20 editions
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A Village Life

4.05 avg rating — 2,274 ratings — published 2009 — 20 editions
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Poems, 1962-2012

4.44 avg rating — 2,047 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions
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Vita Nova: Winner of the No...

3.98 avg rating — 1,839 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions
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“Of two sisters
one is always the watcher,
one the dancer.”
Louise Glück, Descending Figure

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.”
Louise Gluck

“From the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved.”
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