The Wild Iris Contributor(s): Gluck, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0880013346 ISBN-13: 9780880013345 Publisher: Ecco Press OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 1993 Annotation: This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive. 1992 National Book Award finalist. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 91036419 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.20 lbs) 80 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 with clarity and sureness of craft, Louise Gl ck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gluck, Louise: - Louise Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is The Seven Ages. Louise Glück teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |