Louise Gl ck is the author of twelve books of poems and two essay collections. Her many awards include the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and Stanford University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
One of the purest and most accomplished lyric poets now writing
*Robert Hass*
No American poet writes better than Louise Glück, perhaps none can
lead us so deeply into our own nature
*Stephen Dobyns*
It is difficult to think of another living poet whose voice
contains so much electrifying undercurrent, whose rhythms are under
such control, but whose work is also so exposed and urgent.
*Guardian*
A tremendous poet ... Louise Glück has spent a lifetime showing us
how to make language both mean something and hold everything
*Guardian*
Put together, these compact volumes have a great novel's
cohesiveness and raking moral intensity. They display a supple and
prosecutorial mind interrogating not merely her own life but also
the sensual and political nature of the world that spins around it.
. . . No other poet slices with such accuracy and deadly intent . .
. Glück is fearless.
*New York Times*
Glück is among the most moving poets of our era . . . This voice is
not going to go away.
*New Yorker*
As with other great poets, Glück does not invite paraphrase. Her
poems at their best--and they are very often at their best--embody
not just the rage to order, but also the rage to identify a 'truth'
that no order can approximate or touch.
*Nation*
Glück is as important and influential a poet as we have in America
. . . Glück's work is all edges . . . the sharper ones can inflict
heavenly hurt, where the meanings are. If you want to know about
the last half-century of American poetry, you need to read these
poems."
*Los Angeles Review of Books*
You read a passage by Glück and think, Ah yes, of course, this is
how it is. She has the extraordinary writer's gift of making clear
what is, outside the world of her poem, complex ... [and] a
compassionate, comprehensive vision of human understanding and
destiny. Her poetry, for all its huge distinction, its vibrant
intelligence and its beauty, has never lost the ability to serve
society, or the reader.
*Guardian*
Glück is unparalleled in finding beauty in tribulation more so than
any American poet since Emily Dickinson.
*The Oregonian*
Glück's poems face truths that most people, most poets, deny ... A
Glück book can seem both visceral and cerebral, full of thought and
full of grit and pith. If the earliest successes echoed Sylvia
Plath, the latest reach beyond American poetry, to the melancholy
generosity of Anton Chekhov, the shifting perspectives of Alice
Munro.
*Guardian*
Glück's voice is like no other in modern American poetry. Her
poetic domain--like that of Wallace Stevens--lies in the seclusion
of analytic thought. The seamless continuity of her verse suggests
a mind in perpetual meditation, deliberating in a state of waking
dream. Her laserlike intensity purifies as it objectifies and
erodes, leaving an indelible impression on the reader.
*World Literature Today*
Glück explores--with growing mastery and imagination, candor and
wide-ranging inquiry, intensity and restraint--the turmoil of
family life; the fever, bliss, and misery of lust and love; the
circular battle with the self; age and death. For 50 years, Glück
has been writing poems of formal elegance, psychic intimacy, brainy
fusion, emotional acuity, and aesthetic splendor. Her assembled
life's work is magnificent.
*Booklist*
Though Glück has held national fame since the late 1970s for her
terse, pared-down poems, this first career-spanning collected may
be the most widely noted, and the most praised, collected poems in
some time.
*Publishers Weekly*
A rare and high imagination ... Glück's poems are delicately
intense, spun out of fire and air, with a tensile strength that
belies their fragility. Everything she touches turns to music and
legend
*Stanley Kunitz*
Glück is a poet to guide us through the frightening world
*Thea Hawlin*
Glück's is a voice unlike any other, teeming with phrases and
stanzas that are sets of instructions on how to be human
*Ian McMillan*
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