Poet Laureate Louise Gluck

Die amerikanische Dichterin Louise Gluck (sprich: Glick) wird nächster Poet Laureate, berichtet die NYT*) am 30.8.03:

Gluck’s poetry often deals with women’s problems and can be dark and foreboding. Loss and isolation are common themes.

„Writing is not decanting of personality,“ she wrote in 1994 at the start of a volume of essays called „Proofs and Theories.“ „The truth, on the page, need not have been lived. It is, instead, all that can be envisioned.“

Asked for a sample of her work, she suggested five lines from „The Seven Ages,“ published in 2001:

Immunity to time, to change. Sensation
Of perfect safety, the sense of being
Protected from what we loved
And our intense need was absorbed by the night
And returned as sustenance.

The one-year poet laureate’s job includes an office at the Library of Congress, a $35,000 salary and an obligation to deliver and organize readings. Previous poets laureate including Robert Frost, Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove.

Mehr: Washington Post 30.8.03