Description: Writing with precision of language and imagery, clarity of sensation, and supreme poetic self-confidence, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Wild Iris" skillfully interweaves events from the dissolution of a modern marriage with scenes from the "Odyssey" to create this remarkable collection of 46 poignant and combative poems.
Brief description:
Louise Glück (1943-2023) was the author of two collections of essays and thirteen books of poems. Her many awards included the Nobel Prize in Literature, the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Award for Faithful and Virtuous Night, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems 1962-2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Review Quotes:
"Although Gluck is still in the middle of her career, it's clear that she is one of those poets--like Yeats, for example, and unlike Stevens--whose writing is provoked by their unfolding temporal life. . . . For more than a decade, Gluck has been writing books of poems that are meant to be encountered like novels, and has been looking into the difficult problem of finding a structure whereby an essentially lyric gift can be adapted to epic and unifying ambitions. Meadowlands gives us her most elaborate and satisfying solution." - The New Yorker