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Louise Glück

Louise Glück
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Louise Glück

Born: 22 April 1943 • Died: 13 October 2023

Louise Glück was born in New York, New York, on April 22, 1943, and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014), which won the 2014 National Book Award in Poetry; Averno (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; and Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker’s Book Award in Poetry. In 2004, Sarabande Books released her six-part poem “October” as a chapbook. (Source)

Poems by Louise Glück

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The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück

September 1, 2026
“Always in these friendships / one serves the other, one is less than the other” — Louise Glück
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Telemachus’ Detachment by Louise Glück

May 13, 2026
“Now I think / heartbreaking, but also / insane.” — Louise Glück
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The Silver Lily by Louise Glück

April 15, 2026
“We have come too far together toward the end now / to fear the end.” — Louise Glück
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The Undertaking by Louise Glück

July 8, 2023
“And now / all fear gives way: the light / looks after you” – Louise Glück
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Snowdrops by Louise Glück

December 28, 2012
"I did not expect to survive, / earth suppressing me." – Louise Glück
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The Untrustworthy Speaker by Louise Glück

October 5, 2011
"In my own mind, I’m invisible: that’s why I’m dangerous." – Louise Glück
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First Memory by Louise Glück

September 1, 2011
"I lived / to revenge myself / against my father" – Louise Glück
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Unwritten Law by Louise Glück

July 24, 2011
"I ruled against the indefinite article. / And yet, the mistakes of my youth / made me hopeless" – Louise Glück
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Circe's Grief by Louise Glück

April 12, 2011
"This is how a god says goodbye: / If I am in her head forever / I am in your life forever." — Louise Glück
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The Garden by Louise Glück

February 11, 2011
"even here, even at the beginning of love, / her hand leaving his face makes / an image of departure" — Louise Glück
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Castile by Louise Glück

October 9, 2007
“Does it have to happen in the world to be real? / I dreamed everything, the story became my story:” — Louise Glück
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Prism by Louise Glück

October 18, 2006
"Time was experienced / less as narrative than ritual." — Louise Glück
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Nostos by Louise Glück

November 1, 2005
“We look at the world once, in childhood. / The rest is memory.” — Louise Glück
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Witchgrass by Louise Glück

September 29, 2005
“I was here first, / before you were here, before / you ever planted a garden.” — Louise Glück
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Eros by Louise Glück

August 14, 2005
"I wanted only this: / the room, the chair, the sound of the rain falling, / hour after hour, in the warmth of the spring night." – Louise Glück