Throughout her half-century profession, Ms. Glück wrote about childhood, household, loneliness and dying, drawing inspiration from historic mythology in addition to her personal life. She obtained nearly all of America’s prime literary honors, together with a Pulitzer Prize for her 1993 assortment “The Wild Iris,” and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2020 “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere magnificence makes particular person existence common.”
“Glück’s language is staunchly simple, remarkably near the diction of peculiar speech,” critic and editor Wendy Lesser wrote in The Washington Publish in 1985, reviewing Ms. Glück’s assortment “The Triumph of Achilles,” which obtained the Nationwide Ebook Critics Circle Award. “But her cautious choice for rhythm and repetition, and the specificity of even her idiomatically imprecise phrases, give her poems a weight that’s removed from colloquial.”
A lot of her poems appeared to unfold like confessions or conversations between two folks, as in “Night time Track,” which ended: “You’re like me tonight, one of many fortunate ones. / You’ll get what you need. You’ll get your oblivion.”
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