Louise Gluck
American poet who won the Nobel Prize in 2020 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris. Her spare, mythological verse interrogates human relationships with austere intelligence.
Works
- FirstbornDebut collection of spare, mythic poems exploring grief and family relationships
- The House on MarshlandPoems using marshland metaphor to explore female psychology and family dynamics
- Descending FigureCollection drawing on myth to examine female vulnerability, desire, and death
- The Wild IrisDialogue between speaker and flowers exploring love, loss, and divine transformation
- AvernoRetelling of Persephone myth as metaphor for descent and resurrection