Synopses & Reviews
Images of life and spiritual growth center around the themes of the garden, the mirror, and lamentations in this collection of twenty-six poems.
About the Author
Louise Glück was born April 22, 1943 in New York City, New York. She grew up on Long Island and attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, both in New York State. She is best known for her award winning collection entitled, The Wild Iris. After graduation, Glück began teaching poetry, accepting positions at various colleges and universities. In 1968, her first collection entitled Firstborn was published. Seven years later she published The House on the Marshland, and in 1985, The Triumph of Achilles won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. In 1993, she was an editor of The Best American Poetry anthology. Her last appointment was as Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College. Glück has received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannas Literary Award for Poetry, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowments for the Arts. Her collection "Ararat", (1990) received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbett National Prize for Poetry. The Wild Iris, perhaps her most award winning collection acquired the highest honor possible in 1993, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. It also received the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award In 1994 she was named Poet Laureate of Vermont, and was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003, she was named Poet Laureate of the United States.