Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is The Seven Ages. Louise Glück teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
[Gluck's] most ambitious and compelling book. Meadowlands suggests
that its much-honored author is not willing to take her own
achievement for granted, and the result is a poetry more
stringently dissatisfied and beautiful than ever before.--The Yale
Review
Although Gluck is still in the middle of her career, it's clear
that she is one of those poets--like Yeats, for example, and unlike
Stevens--whose writing is provoked by their unfolding temporal
life. . . . For more than a decade, Gluck has been writing books of
poems that are meant to be encountered like novels, and has been
looking into the difficult problem of finding a structure whereby
an essentially lyric gift can be adapted to epic and unifying
ambitions. Meadowlands gives us her most elaborate and satisfying
solution.--The New Yorker
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