Louise Gluck

Marigold and Rose is a hundred pages about twin baby girls in their first year, one who intends to write a book and one who does not, and it was the last thing Louise Glück published in her lifetime. Farrar, Straus and Giroux brought it out in 2022. The poetry ran before it and for much longer: The Wild Iris took the Pulitzer in 1993, Faithful and Virtuous Night the National Book Award in 2014, and the Swedish Academy gave her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 for a voice it called unmistakable and austere. Born in New York in 1943, she taught for decades at Williams and then at Yale, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 13 October 2023 at eighty.