Descending Figure

Name: Descending Figure
Author: Louise Gluck

by Louise Gluck

Collection drawing on myth to examine female vulnerability, desire, and death

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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.

More by Louise Gluck

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
The Wild IrisDialogue between speaker and flowers exploring love, loss, and divine transformation
AvernoRetelling of Persephone myth as metaphor for descent and resurrection