Wild Iris

A beautiful and mysterious book by Vermont's poet laureate. Here, along side the quiet, often pain-filled reflections of the speaker, the voices of nature are also given their say. Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize.

This collection of stunningly beautiful poems encompasses the natural, human, and spiritual realms, and is bound together by the universal themes of time and mortality. With clarity and sureness of craft, Gluck's poetry questions, explores, and finally celebrates the ordeal of being alive.

Louise GlÜck won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris in 1993. The author of eight books of poetry and one collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry, she has received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. She was named the next U.S. poet laureate in August 2003. Her most recent book is The Seven Ages. Louise GlÜck teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Distributor: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 11-01-1993
Pages: 80
Measurements: 9in X 6in X 0.2in X 3.28oz