'I've always been drawn by poems to which the reader makes an essential contribution': Louise Gluck
‘I’ve always been drawn by poems to which the reader makes an essential contribution’: Louise Gluck The Nobel literature laureate’s acceptance speech. Dec 12, 2020 · 05:30 pm Nobel Prize for Literature 2020 winner Louise Gluck outside her house with her Nobel medal and citation. | Reuters When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to decide the greatest poem in the world. There were two finalists: Blake’s “The Little Black Boy” and Stephen Foster’s “Swanee River.” I paced up and down the s...
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