Louise Glück and Other Nobel Prize Winning Authors
Posted on October 21, 2020
by Eric P
The latest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Louise Glück, is an American poet whose verse is accessible and straightforward – no deliberate obscurity or arcane allusions or off-putting architectural stanzas. There’s an almost plain-spoken intimacy to much of her writing. She crafts insights into relatable subjects – domestic relationships, family life, aging, death – by writing about observable, quotidian things like birds, gardens, bedrooms. The New York Times recently published an admiration of Gluck’s work which celebrated it for not being nice. And it’s true: if poetry is going to engage with this world, it can’t afford always to be nice.
Ararat
The Wild Iris
Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry
The First Four Books of Poems
Meadowlands
The Seven Ages
Averno
Poems 1962-2002
Faithful and Virtuous Night
And if you’ve already read Glück and want to expand your horizons with some other recent and not-as-recent Nobel-winning writers, the Library’s got you covered:
Repetition
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
eBook | eAudiobookNever Let Me Go
eBook | eAudiobookThe Unwomanly Face of War
eBookSo You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood
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