Human time superimposed on geologic time, all taken in at a glance, without any undue sensation of speed. On sunny days, rainbows in the piss of the cherub.Īround the fountain are concentric circles of figures, organized by age and in degrees of distance: fields, a river, and, like the fountain's opposite, a mountain. The fountain rises at the center of the plaza She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teaches as the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale University and in the creative writing program of Boston University.A Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a Mediterranean world of no definite moment or place:Īll the roads in the village unite at the fountain.Īvenue of Liberty, Avenue of the Acacia Trees. Glück also worked as a senior lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served as a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa and taught at Goddard College in Vermont. In 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, 'for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.' Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award ( Triumph of Achilles), the Academy of American Poet's Prize ( Firstborn), as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection, The Wild Iris. In 2001, Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. She also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. She is the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009) Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award The Seven Ages (2001) Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry Meadowlands (1996) The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University. Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island.

American poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.

Averno by Louise Glück