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Louise Gluck

Forfatterbiografi

Louise Glück (født 22. april 1943 i New York City, død 13. oktober 2023 i Cambridge, Massachusetts) var en amerikansk digter, kendt for sin nøgterne og præcise lyriske stemme. Hun voksede op på Long Island, og hendes digte kredser ofte om erindring, familieforhold, ensomhed, kærlighed og dødelighed—temaer, der gør det personlige universelt og samtidig bærer præg af en streng form for kunstnerisk disciplin. Hun regnes i litteraturhistorien som en af de mest markante samtidsstemmer inden for amerikansk poesi. Glück debuterede som digter med udgivelser, der hurtigt etablerede hendes særkende; sidenhen udgav hun en række højt anerkendte samlinger og blev internationalt kendt for sin måde at omsætte erfaringer til stramt komponeret poesi. Hendes betydning for litteraturen understreges særligt af de store priser, hun modtog: Nobelprisen i litteratur i 2020 blev givet for hendes uforlignelige poetiske stemme, som med asketisk skønhed gør det enkelte menneskes eksistens almen. Tidligere har hun blandt andet modtaget Pulitzerprisen for The Wild Iris samt Bollingen-prisen. Flere af hendes værker beskrives også som centrale bidrag til den moderne, sprogligt stramme poesitradition.

Bøger af Louise Gluck

'The Wild Iris'
'The Wild Iris'

Bog | Engelsk

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1993 Helen Vendler wrote in The New Republic : 'Louise Glück is a poet of strong and haunting presence. Her poems, published in a series of memorable books over th

'Averno'
'Averno'

Bog | Engelsk

'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Glück's masterpiece' The New York Times Book Review An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to t

'A Village Life'
'A Village Life'

Bog | Engelsk

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 From a fountain where 'all the roads in the village unite', concentric circles expand into the distance: the young and old, fields, a river, a mountain the fountain's stone counterpart, where th

'Averno'
'Averno'

Bog | Engelsk

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Glucks new collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to wi

'Averno'
'Averno'

Bog | Engelsk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gl ck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievabl

'Proofs and Theories'
'Proofs and Theories'

Bog | Engelsk

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 Louise Gluck's award-winning collection of essays is the work of a major poet and a distinguished teacher. She writes of her upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, and she dwells with a scrupulo

'Faithful and Virtuous Night'
'Faithful and Virtuous Night'

Bog | Engelsk

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" ( The New York Times ) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl ck is one of the finest American poets at work today. Her Poems 1962-2012 was

'Winter Recipes from the Collective'
'Winter Recipes from the Collective'

Bog | Engelsk

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes Louise Gl?ck's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, s

'Poems'
'Poems'

Bog | Engelsk

A major career-spanning collection from the inimitable Nobel Prize-winning poet For the past fifty years, Louise Glück has been a major force in modern poetry, distinguished as much for the restless intelligence, wit and intimacy of her poetic voice as fo

'Wild Iris, The'
'Wild Iris, The'

Bog | Engelsk

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gl ck, a stunningly beautiful collection of poems that encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms Bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality and wi

'The Seven Ages'
'The Seven Ages'

Bog | Engelsk

Louise Gluck has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and

'Proofs and Theories'
'Proofs and Theories'

Bog | Engelsk

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Proofs and Theories , winner of the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Non-Fiction, is an illuminating collection of essays by Louise Gl?ck, one of this country's most brilliant poets. Like her poems, the prose

'Meadowlands'
'Meadowlands'

Bog | Engelsk

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In an astonishing book-length sequence, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Louise Gluck interweaves the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of The Odyssey. Here is Penelope stubbornly weaving, elevating t

'Averno'
'Averno'

Bog | Dansk

"Spejlingen mellem menneskeliv, kvindeliv og mytologi er virtuost vibrerende" Politiken "yderst stærkt, helstøbt og uroligt klogt" Jyllands-Posten I Averno gennemskrives et livsforløb fra besværet barn- og ungdom til alderdommens i

'Vild iris'
'Vild iris'

Bog | Dansk

"Vild iris" er en bevægende digtsamling af Louise Glück om den besjælede natur fra 1992. I "Vild iris" udforsker Louise Glück naturens væsen i en samling digte. Hun zoomer helt ind på væksternes løg og rødder, og følger deres

'The First Five Books of Poems'
'The First Five Books of Poems'

Bog | Engelsk

Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020 In an essay Louise Gluck says that every end of a book is for her a 'conscious diagnostic act, a swearing off', in which she discerns the themes, habits and preoccupations of the previous volume as d

'Poems 1962-2012 (PB) - C-format'
'Poems 1962-2012 (PB) - C-format'

Bog | Engelsk

The collected works of the inimitable Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020! It is the astonishment of Louise Glück's poetry that it resists collection. With each successive book her drive to leave behind what ca