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Selected Poems Louise Elisabeth Glück (pron. "Glick") (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet. Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Her father was the inventor of the X-Acto Knife. She graduated in 1961 from George W. Hewlett High School, in Hewlett, New York and attended Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and Columbia University, New York City. In 1993, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection The Wild Iris. Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (Triumph of Achilles), the Academy of American Poet’s Prize (Firstborn), as well as numerous Guggenheim fellowships. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was previously a Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. She currently teaches at Yale University. Works Glück is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Averno (2006); The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker magazine's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), which received the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. The First Four Books collects her early poetry. Louise Glück has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Sarabande Books published in chapbook form a new, six-part poem, "October," in 2004. In 2001 Yale University awarded her its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the MIT Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a member of the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, and in 1999 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003 she was named as the new judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and will serve in that position through 2007. Glück was appointed the US Poet Laureate from 2003-2004, replacing Billy Collins. ------------------------- The Wild Iris At the end of my suffering Hear me out: that which you call death Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting. It is terrible to survive Then it was over: that which you fear, being You who do not remember from the center of my life came
The Triumph of Achilles In the story of Patroclus Always in these friendships What were the Greek ships on fire In his tent, Achilles
Vespers In your extended absence, you permit me
The Untrustworthy Speaker Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken. I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist. It's very sad, really: all my life I've been praised I never see myself. In my own mind, I'm invisible: that's why I'm dangerous. When I'm quiet, that's when the truth emerges. If you want the truth, you have to close yourself That's why I'm not to be trusted.
The Red Poppy The great thing
Snow Late December: my father and I My father liked
The Fear of Burial In the empty field, in the morning, Think of the body's loneliness. And already the remote, trembling lights of the village
Love Poem There is always something to be made of pain.
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