Louise Gl�ck 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 Gl�ck 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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