Louise Glück was born in New York City in 1943, attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University, where she studied with Stanley Kunitz, but did not earn degrees from either university. has since taught at multiple institutions and workshops including Williams College, Harvard, and Yale. After her early success with her debut collection of poems, Firstborn (1968), she was reluctant to teach, but her first faculty appointment at Goddard College in Vermont was so inspiring to her, she said it cured the writer's block she had been experiencing. She has written eleven more collections of poetry since, including The Wild Iris (1992), a series of poems told in the voices of garden...
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