Visiting Writers' Series LibGuide: Louise Glück

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"Considered by many critics to be one of America's most talented contemporary poets, Louise Glück creates verse that has been described as technically precise, sensitive, insightful, and gripping. In her work, Glück freely shares her most intimate thoughts on such commonly shared human experiences as love, family, relationships, and death. 'Glück's poetry is intimate, familial, and what Edwin Muir has called the fable, the archetypal,' wrote a contributor to Contemporary Women Poets. In a review of Glück's collected Poems 1962-2012 for Booklist, Donna Seaman praised the author's "growing mastery and imagination, candor and wide-ranging inquiry, intensity and restraint" and concluded: 'Glück's assembled life's work of shadow and fire, driven by 'perception of beauty, desire for knowledge,' is magnificent.' Within her work can be discerned the influences of poets Stanley Kunitz, with whom Glück studied while attending Columbia University in the mid-1960s, and the early work of Robert Lowell; shadows cast by the confessional poets Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton also haunt her earliest poetry."

Source: "Louise Gluck." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2015. Literature Resource Center, Accessed 4 Dec. 2017.