This Week in Books: Louise Glück Wrote With Authority
The poet loved using myth, history, and legend in her verse.
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Last week, Louise Glück, one of America’s most celebrated poets, died at the age of 80. Glück was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama; she won a National Book Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and, three years before her death, the Nobel Prize in Literature (she was the first American poet to receive it since T. S. Eliot in 1948).; also published two of her poems, and