Louise Glück obituary
Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary
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Former US poet laureate who could create a landscape in her work that made her seem a visionary
Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 was awarded to Louise Glück "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal"
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.
Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died at 80.