Louise Glück is a Pulitzer-Prize winning author of multiple books of poetry, most recently, A Village Life: Poems (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009); Averno (2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; and The Seven Ages (2001).
Poetry
Winter 2001
Dream of Lust
After one of those nights, a day: the mind dutiful, waking, putting on its slippers, and the spirit restive, muttering I’d rather, I’d rather— Where did it come from, so […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Unpainted Door
Finally, in middle age, I was tempted to return to childhood. The house was the same, but the door was different. Not red anymore—unpainted wood. The trees were the same: […]
Summer 2011
Dream of Lust
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 2001, Vol. XXIII, No. 1 After one of those nights, a day: the mind dutiful, waking, putting on its slippers, and the spirit […]