Our lives are becoming increasingly public, and so it makes sense to find ways to cultivate an intimate, private voice and to learn to listen to other intimate, private voices. Poetry is that intimate voice.
Louise Glück said that — or rather, that’s as close as I can get to a summary of her Nobel Prize lecture.
The newspapers have the sad duty of carrying her obituary today. The only thing I’d add is that she’s the kind of poet who rewards her readers.
• Notes: For other notes on Louise Glück, see “The intimate voice of poetry,” Aug. 4, 2022 and “Louise Glück’s Parable of the Swans,” Aug. 5, 2022.
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