Published in 1983 (first published 1968)
53 pages
Louise Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems (Averno, A Village Life) and essay collections (American Originality). Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Poetry for Faithful and Virtuous Night and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
What is this book about?
This is the first collection of poems by Louise Glück, who was born in 1943 in New York. In 1967 she received a Rockefeller Foundation grant for her poetry.
Her poems deal in wastelands, the lost lives of cripples, the hopeless and loveless; yet her landscapes have a stern beauty, a mythic size that looms behind the everyday. Arid, merciless, stinging, yet full of life, these are strikingly original poems.
