Louise Gluck is considered a top contemporary poet within the United States. She was born during 1943 in New York City. Her first book of poetry, Firstborn, was published during 1968. The world got its first taste of her mysterious and obscure poetic style, which is a trademark of Gluck's work.
After Firstborn, Gluck went on to publish several other poetry books, such as The House on Marshland, The Garden, Descending Figure, The Triumph of Achilles, Ararat, and The Wild Iris, among others. Several of her poetry books were published during the second half of the 1900s, with the rest being published after the millennium. She became a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet thanks to The Wild Iris, which seems to tell the story of a sacred connection between nature, one's soul, and the afterlife.
These poetry books are saturated with deep, emotional appeals concerning the intimacy of human nature, including love and loss. Some of her treasured poems are "Aboriginal Landscape," "Dawn," "The Empty Glass," "The Fortress," as well as "Mother and Child."
Gluck is also a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, and was named the 12th United States Poet Laureate during 2003.
