Louise Gluck
Louise Glück (pronounced to rhyme with "click") is an American poet, born on April 22, 1943 in New York City. 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 Black Boy" and the song "Swanee River" (to determine which was the best poem she had yet read), she realized that both shared the tone of a solitary voice in lament, and this realization drove her...
