Remembering Louise Glück (1943-2023)

Encounters with a great poet

We had heard that she was ill, but it was still a shock on Friday when messages started coming in from friends that the poet Louise Glück had died. Everybody dies, and Glück was eighty, with a life behind her of extraordinary accomplishment and extraordinary recognition; so why did it feel so unjust? Maybe because her illness, at least in my awareness o…