![]() She won the Pulitzer prize for poetry in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. ![]() She published her first collection, Firstborn in 1968. While in therapy, she elected to enrol in poetry workshops over a traditional college education and began to develop her voice. Glück has written about developing anorexia as a teenager, which she later said was the result of her efforts to assert independence from her mother, as well as the death of her older sister, which happened before Glück was born. She seeks universality.” (Some poets may dispute that being an either-or.) As Olsson, chair of the Nobel, said earlier: “She is not to be regarded as a confessional poet. Over a career spanning six decades, she has explored trauma, death and healing, in poems that scholars have argued are both confessional and not. Her most recent collection was 2014’s Faithful and Virtuous Night. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Imagesīorn in 1943, Glück has written 12 collections of poetry and two book of essays. ![]() US president Barack Obama presents Louise Glück with the 2015 National humanities medal. ![]()
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