Louise Gluck is the author of a dozen books of poems and American Originality: Essays on Poetry. Her many awards include the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
When one of the nation's great living poets sets her observational eye on the state of the American letters--poetry specifically--it is for all of us to pay attention . . . Gl�ck is an essayist at once generous and sharp, and her insights into craft, classic American poetry, and the souls of the poets, are essential reading. --Jonny Diamond, LitHub