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"To speak of her as if her death is the culmination of the work, though, is to ignore her attention to death’s vast and fecund opposite, rife with pleasure, with suffering."
Louise Glück may well be the one American poet from the second half of the 20th century whose work is read and studied in 100 years, writes Richie Hofmann.
Jiayang Fan, Kevin Young, Elisa Gonzalez, Katy Waldman, Henri Cole, and Hilton Als commemorate the Nobel-winning poet and her work.
Her work included long periods in which she wrote nothing – and when she did write, she had little sense that it was hers
She taught many other poets who went on to be famous, joking: ‘I’m Dracula, drinking their blood!’