Redeployment, age of ambition win national book awards. Louise gluck is the author of nine books of poetry, including the seven ages. Louise gluck has won the 2014 national book award for poetry for her latest book, faithful and virtuous night farrar, straus and giroux. Louise gluck wins 2014 national book award in poetry. Louise glucks words still resonate at williams the. Louise gluck, american poet whose willingness to confront the horrible, the difficult, and the painful resulted in a body of work characterized by insight and a severe lyricism. Gluck has been awarded a pulitzer prize, and had been nominated for the national book award before but this year marks glucks first nba win. On which the exposed heart constructs a house, memory. One of the most prominent american poets of her generation, she has won many major literary awards in the united states, including the national humanities medal, pulitzer prize, national book award, national book critics circle award, and bollingen prize, among others from 2003 to 2004, she was poet laureate of. Louise gluck has won the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award, and the bollingen prize, and is the former poet laureate of the united states.
Louise gluck wins national book award for poetry jstor daily. Louise gluck, born in new york city in 1943, grew up on long island. She was born in new york city and grew up in long island. The world is in flux, therefore unreadable, the winds shifting, the great plates invisibly shifting and changing2. She has been awarded the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award, the william carlos williams award, the bobbitt national poetry prize, and the ambassadors award for her poetry, as. Essays on poetry, she has received the national book critics circle award for poetry, the william carlos williams award, and the penmartha albrand award for nonfiction.
While many of her poems clearly address the challenges of life and love in the contemporary world, they are at times informed by the themes and landscapes of classical mythology. Louise gluck poems, quotations and biography on louise gluck poet page. She attended sarah lawrence college and columbia university. In 1993, she received the pulitzer prize for the wild iris. Louise gluck has won the 2014 national book award for poetry for her latest book, faithful and virtuous night.
She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, faithful and virtuous night farrar, straus, and giroux, 2014, which won the 2014 national book award in poetry. She won the pulitzer prize for the collection the wild iris. Gluck 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 work is distinguished by a rare ability to deploy ostensibly simple language to evoke powerful emotion. What averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present. One of the most prominent american poets of her generation, she has won many major literary awards in the united states, including the national humanities medal, pulitzer prize, national book award. 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. The national book foundation announced this morning the finalists for the 2014 national book award in the categories of. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, proofs and theories. Put together, these compact volumes have a great novels cohesiveness and raking moral intensity. Louise gluck was born in new york city in 1943 and grew up on long island. Posted on september 18, 2014 by anne spieth scuse us while we celebrate.
Louise gluck national endowment for the humanities neh. Louise gluck was born 22nd april 1943, to daniel and beatrice gluck. Congratulations to louise gluck, winner of the 2014 national book award in poetry for her collection faithful and virtuous night farrar, straus and giroux. She was born in new york city, new york, in the united states. Faithful and virtuous night national book foundation. Her many awards include the pulitzer prize, the national book critics circle award, the bollingen prize and the wallace stevens award from the academy of american poets.
Louise gluck is the author of ten books of poems and a collection of essays. She teaches at yale university and lives in cambridge. Poet laureate in 20032004, teaches at yale university. Louise gluck faithful and virtuous night farrar, straus and giroux isbn. See more ideas about louise gluck, poems and poetry. She went on to attend sarah lawrence college and columbia university. Her latest collection, faithful and virtuous night, won the national book award for poetry in 2014. Louise elisabeth gluck born april 22, 1943 is an american poet and essayist. Mar 23, 2014 explore loveword1122s board louise gluck. National book awardwinning poet louise gluck reads from faithful. Winship award, 2007 ambassadors award, the english speaking union, the best book of poetry, 2007 finalist, national book award, 2006. Louise gluck had an older sister who died before she was born, and a younger sister, tereze. Essays on poetry 1994, which won the penmartha albrand award for nonfiction.
Vita nova by louise gluck book cover isbn 9780060957957. Louise gluck, american poet whose willingness to confront the horrible. Robert polito, president of the poetry foundation and one of this years judges, announced the award in poetry. Elements of a medieval quest superimpose on a modern city, and she writes in the voice of an aging artist and a man. Louise gluck wins this years national book award in. Louise gluck biography, life, interesting facts early years and education.
Glucks honors include the new yorkers book award in poetry, the wallace stevens award from the. Robert polito, president of the poetry foundation and one of. National book award winners, from left, phil klay, fiction. Longlist for fiction wolf in white van by john darnielle farrar, straus and giroux lila by marilynne robinson. She teaches at yale university and lives in cambridge, massachusetts. Considered by many to be one of americas most talented contemporary poets, gluck is noted for her poetrys technical precision, sensitivity, and insight into loneliness, family relationships, divorce, and death, as well as what poet rosanna warren has. Gluck received our 2008 wallace stevens award and from 1999 to 2005 served on our board of chancellors read the poem the past from her new award winning collection and listen to her reading the wild iris from her 1992 pulitzer. She has also been awarded the national book critics circle award, the bollingen prize. It received the national book circle award, the boston globe literary press award and the poetry society of americas melville kane award. Louise gluck was born in new york city on april 22, 1943, and grew up on long island. She has also been awarded the national book critics circle award, the bollingen prize, and the national book award, among many other distinctions. Faithful and virtuous night by louise gluck, 9781847774798. Louise gluck accepts the 2014 national book award in poetry for.
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