Louise Gluck
Louise Glück (pronounced to rhyme with "click") is an American poet, born on April 22, 1943 in New York City. Her father, Daniel Glück, was one of the inventors of the X-Acto knife. Her younger sister Tereze, who passed away in 2018, worked for Citibank for decades and also had a career as a fiction writer.
As a girl growing up on Long Island, Glück read poetry widely and took a special liking to the work of William Blake. When holding a competition in her mind between William Blake's "Little...
