The Wild Iris

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.

Author: Louise Gluck
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 11/01/1993
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780880013345
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner

About the Author
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.