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Averno; Vaško življenje
Nobelova lavreatka Louise Glück je eden najsijajnejših glasov sodobne svetovne poezije.
Ko so Louise Glück vprašali, katero od takrat še dvanajstih od trinajstih pesniških knjig bi priporočila svojim novim bralcem, je odvrnila, da je to Averno (2006). Zbirko, kot že nekatere prejšnje, zaznamuje mitologija, pesmi so daljše, sestavljene iz več delov, ki se dopolnjujejo v enovito celoto, v katero lahko bralec vstopa poljubno.
Druga knjiga, ki je bila pesnici prav tako zelo pri srcu, saj je v njej končno dosegla bolj sproščen, narativen izraz, je Vaško življenje (2009). A tudi tu je antagonizem med naravo, ki je brezbrižna, nespremenljiva, in človeško eksistenco, ki je bežna in krhka, glavno počelo pesmi.
V obeh knjigah je pesnici uspelo ustvariti zaokrožen univerzum, kjer je vsaka pesem, vsaka beseda natančno odmerjena in na točno določenem mestu. To je poezija jasnega izraza, presunljive lepote in globokih uvidov, ki nas neustrašno in nepopustljivo soočajo z našo človeškostjo; vidi v našo dušo, vidi našo senco in ji da glas – je duhovno darilo, prepotrebna popotnica za ta naš nemirni čas.
Ko so Louise Glück vprašali, katero od takrat še dvanajstih od trinajstih pesniških knjig bi priporočila svojim novim bralcem, je odvrnila, da je to Averno (2006). Zbirko, kot že nekatere prejšnje, zaznamuje mitologija, pesmi so daljše, sestavljene iz več delov, ki se dopolnjujejo v enovito celoto, v katero lahko bralec vstopa poljubno.
Druga knjiga, ki je bila pesnici prav tako zelo pri srcu, saj je v njej končno dosegla bolj sproščen, narativen izraz, je Vaško življenje (2009). A tudi tu je antagonizem med naravo, ki je brezbrižna, nespremenljiva, in človeško eksistenco, ki je bežna in krhka, glavno počelo pesmi.
V obeh knjigah je pesnici uspelo ustvariti zaokrožen univerzum, kjer je vsaka pesem, vsaka beseda natančno odmerjena in na točno določenem mestu. To je poezija jasnega izraza, presunljive lepote in globokih uvidov, ki nas neustrašno in nepopustljivo soočajo z našo človeškostjo; vidi v našo dušo, vidi našo senco in ji da glas – je duhovno darilo, prepotrebna popotnica za ta naš nemirni čas.
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Published November 28, 2025
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About the author
Louise Glück
96 books2,173 followersAmerican poet Louise Elisabeth Glück served as poet laureate of the United States from 2003 to 2004.
Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.
She was the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009); Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; 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 William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
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 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
Glück also worked as a senior lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served as a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa and taught at Goddard College in Vermont. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teached as the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale University and in the creative writing program of Boston University.
Parents of Hungarian Jewish heritage reared her on Long Island. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and later Columbia University.
She was the author of twelve books of poetry, including: A Village Life (2009); Averno (2006), which was a finalist for The National Book Award; 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 William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America; Ararat (1990), which received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress. She also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.
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 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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2020, Glück was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
Glück also worked as a senior lecturer in English at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served as a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa and taught at Goddard College in Vermont. She lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and teached as the Rosencranz writer in residence at Yale University and in the creative writing program of Boston University.
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