Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night, A Village Life, Averno, Vita Nova, The Wild Iris, and Ararat. Her poetry books have won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her book of essays, Proofs and Theories, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Other awards include the Bollingen Prize, Wallace Stevens Award, Lannan Literary Award, and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003 Glück was named the 12th United States Poet Laureate. She is currently Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University.
Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night, A Village Life, Averno, Vita Nova, The Wild Iris, and Ararat. Her poetry books have won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her book of essays, Proofs and Theories, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Other awards include the Bollingen Prize, Wallace Stevens Award, Lannan Literary Award, and a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003 Glück was named the 12th United States Poet Laureate. She is currently Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University.
read more
show less