Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück dies at 80

Louise Glück, the Nobel Prize-winning poet known for her spare, intimate verse exploring mortality, loss, and family, died at age 80. Over her career she published 12 poetry collections, two essay collections, and a novel, including 'The Triumph of Achilles' (1985), 'The Wild Iris' (1992), 'Meadowlands' (1996), 'Averno' (2006), and 'Winter Recipes From the Collective' (2021). She received the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in New York in 1943, Glück underwent seven years of psychoanalysis as a teenager for anorexia, which deeply influenced her work. She taught at Vermont and judged the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her mentor was Stanley Kunitz; her students include Claudia Rankine, Elisa Gonzalez, and Max Ritvo. Glück disliked poetry readings and preferred being read alone at night. Her final book, 'Faithful and Virtuous Night' (2014), features a landscape painter as protagonist. The obituary was written by poet Lucy Mercer.