Our new Poet Laureate

[yendi]

I had no idea that Billy Collins was no longer Poet Laureate, and that one of my favorite poets, Louise Glück, was now in that position. I've been a fan of hers since 1990, when I took Georgia Christopher's Poetry: The Generation 2000 class in my Freshman year. I discovered a number of poets there who soon became big, but Glück, along with Sharon Olds, quickly became one of my favorites (we read other notables like Simic, Hass, and Dove, too). I've got a signed copy of Meadowlands, which I still think is her best work (although she won the Pulitzer for Wild Iris). She's moved from writing individual post-Plath poems to writing collections that look at contemporary life through themes from classical mythology, and done so wonderfully.

Poetry gets almost no support in this day and age. There's lots of readable stuff out there, and you could do worse than picking up one of Louise's books.

Comments

[catalyxt.livejournal.com]

*nods* Agreed. And Glück is extremely talented.