YALE UNIVERSITY: Louise Gluck wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry

M2 PRESSWIRE-21 February 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: [Louise Gluck] wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD New Haven, Conn. -- A three-judge panel has named Louise Gluck the 2001 winner of Yale University's Bollingen Prize in Poetry, for her 1999 book, "Vita Nova,"...

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Published inM2 Presswire p. 1
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Published Coventry Normans Media Ltd 21.02.2001
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Summary:M2 PRESSWIRE-21 February 2001-YALE UNIVERSITY: [Louise Gluck] wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry (C)1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD New Haven, Conn. -- A three-judge panel has named Louise Gluck the 2001 winner of Yale University's Bollingen Prize in Poetry, for her 1999 book, "Vita Nova," published by Ecco Press. The judges wrote, "In the work of no other contemporary American poet is the individual psyche so unsparingly portrayed, in both the anguish and the humor with which it confronts its profound solitude and the twin darknesses which precede birth and follow life... [Gluck] deals with powerful emotions, expressed in a language of surpassing clarity and spareness, full of passion and devoid of sentiment." This year's Bollingen Prize judges were Bonnie Costello, professor of English at Boston University, and the poets Henri Cole and Karl Kirchwey. Gluck was born in New York City in 1943. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University and studied with Leonie Adams and Stanley Kunitz, both winners of the Bollingen Prize. She has been on the faculty of Williams College since 1984.