Elegance
Sigrid Estrada
Louise Glück, the
U.S. poet laureate.
Pulitzer winner Glück
named poet laureate
By CARL HARTMAN
The Associated Press
8/28/2003, 6:26 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — Louise Glück, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a dozen other poetry awards, will be the next U.S. poet laureate….
Asked for a sample of her work, she suggested five lines from “The Seven Ages,” published in 2001:
“Immunity to time, to change. Sensation
Of perfect safety, the sense of being
Protected from what we loved
And our intense need was
absorbed by the night
And returned as sustenance.”