It is terrible to survive/
as consciousness/
buried in the dark earth.
~ Louise Gluck
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Quoted from Louise Gluck, "The Wild Iris" in The Wild Iris (ECCO Press/HarperCollins, 1993) (This collection won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize.)
Louise Gluck, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2003-2004
Louise Gluck Profiles at Academy of American Poets and Poetry Foundation
Gluck published American Originality: Essays on Poetry in 2017. Her most recent collection of poems is Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which received the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry.
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