![]() ![]() Recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature in 2020, Louise Glück is one of the few American contemporary poets whose voice remains unmistakable while offering poetical and aesthetic variations in each of her new collections. Reading these poems, one feels that all the resources Glück has developed up until now have been brought to bear, and yet, even more impressively, that she has demanded of herself new and surprising methods. No one could accuse this poet of relaxing into the role of the senior laureate reproducing a signature style. ![]() This dual characteristic is in keeping with the poet’s gradual swerving toward a more narrative poetics. 1In her latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, published in 2014, Louise Glück explores a new form in her work where prose poems alternate with free verse. ![]()
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