露易絲·格麗剋(Louise Gluck),1943年出生於紐約,現居馬薩諸塞州劍橋市。是美國當代著名女詩人,美國桂冠詩人(2003-2004),曾獲普利策奬、國傢圖書奬、全國書評界奬、波林根奬等。除了寫作,她還是耶魯大學的英語教授。
2020年10月8日,露易絲·格麗剋獲得2020年諾貝爾文學奬,獲奬理由是“因為她那無可辯駁的詩意般的聲音,用樸素的美使個人的存在變得普遍”。 [1-2]
人物經歷
編輯露易絲·格麗剋1943年生於一個匈牙利裔猶太人家庭,離開高中後曾進入莎拉勞倫斯學院、哥倫比亞大學,但均未畢業。1968年出版處女詩集《頭生子》,至今著有十二本詩集和一本詩隨筆集,遍獲各種詩歌奬項,包括普利策奬、國傢圖書奬、全國書評界奬、美國詩人學院華萊士·斯蒂文斯奬、波林根奬等。
格麗剋的詩長於對心理隱微之處的把握,早期作品具有很強的自傳性,後來的作品則通過人神對質,以及對神話人物的心理分析,導嚮人的存在根本問題,愛、死亡、生命、毀滅。自《阿勒山》開始,她的每部詩集都是精巧的織體,可作為一首長詩或一部組詩。從《阿勒山》和《野鳶尾》開始,格麗剋成了“必讀的詩人”。
個人作品
編輯詩集隨筆
《頭生子》(Firstborn),1968
《沼澤地上的房子》(The House on Marshland),1975
《下降的形象》(Descending Figure),1980
《阿基利斯的勝利》(The Triumph of Achilles),1985
《阿勒山》(Ararat),1990
《野鳶尾》(The Wild Iris),1992
《證據與理論》(Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry),1994,詩隨筆
《最早的四本詩集》(The First Four Books of Poems),1995,合訂出版
《草場》(Meadowlands),1996
《新生》(Vita Nova),1999
《七個時期》(The Seven Ages),2001
《阿弗爾諾》(Averno),2006
《鄉村生活》(A Village Life),2009
中文版本
2016年,格麗剋詩合集《月光的合金》《直到世界反映了靈魂最深層的需要》由世紀文景/上海人民出版社出版。
《直到世界反映了靈魂最深層的需要》完整收錄了格麗剋的《阿弗爾諾》(新英格蘭筆會奬)和《村居生活》(格林芬詩歌奬短名單)兩本詩集;並收錄早期五本詩集《頭生子》(美國詩歌學會詩人奬)、《沼澤地上的房屋》、《下降的形象》、《阿基裏斯的勝利》(全國書評界奬)、《阿勒山》(國會圖書館麗貝卡·博比特全國詩歌奬)的精選之作。
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Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Her father helped invent the X-Acto Knife. Glück graduated in 1961 from George W. Hewlett High School, in Hewlett, New York. She attended Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, and Columbia University, New York City. Glück won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1993 for her collection The Wild Iris. Glück is the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award (Triumph of Achilles), the Academy of American Poet’s Prize (Firstborn), as well as numerous Guggenheim fellowships. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was previously a Senior Lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Glück currently teaches at Yale University.
Works
Glück is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Averno (2006); The Seven Ages (2001); Vita Nova (1999), which was awarded The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), which received the Library of Congress's Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. The First Four Books collects her early poetry.
Louise Glück has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Sarabande Books published in chapbook form a new, six-part poem, October, in 2004. In 2001 Yale University awarded Louise Glück its Bollingen Prize in Poetry, given biennially for a poet's lifetime achievement in his or her art. Her other honors include the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the MIT Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and in 1999 was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2003 she was named as the new judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets and will serve in that position through 2007. Glück was appointed the US Poet Laureate from 2003-2004, replacing Billy Collins.
Bibliography
Poetry
Firstborn (New American Library, 1968)
The House on Marshland (Ecco Press, 1975)
The Garden (Antaeus, 1976)
Descending Figure (Ecco Press, 1980)
The Triumph of Achilles (Ecco Press, 1985)
Ararat (Ecco Press, 1990)
The Wild Iris (Ecco Press, 1992)
The First Four Books of Poems (Ecco Press, 1995)
Meadowlands (Ecco Press, 1997)
Vita Nova (Ecco Press, 1999)
The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001)
Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)
Prose
Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (Ecco Press, 1994)
References
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