The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

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The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

The poems in this collection are written in the language of flowers. Louise Gluck received the Pulitzer Prize for "The Wild Iris" in 1993, and has also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.
Louise Glűck was the author of twelve books of poems and two collections of essays. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal." Her other awards included the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, and the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She taught at Yale University and Stanford University and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She died in October 2023 at the age of 80.
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ISBN 13 9781857542233
ISBN 10 1857542231
Title The Wild Iris
Author Louise Gluck
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published 1996-02-29
Number of pages 80
Prizes Winner of Pulitzer Prize Poetry Category 1993
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