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Event Description
One of the good reasons the year 2020 will go down in history is that for the first time an American poet was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. While Louise Glück’s work is well known in poetry circles, it is as yet little known by the American public. “Louise Glück is not only engaged by the errancies and shifting conditions of life,” according to the Nobel’s statement, “she is also a poet of radical change and rebirth, where the leap forward is made from a deep sense of loss.” This course will provide an introduction to Glück’s poetry through close study of her most recent book, Faithful and Virtuous Night (2014), winner of the National Book Award. Linda Leavell, the instructor, is a scholar of American poetry and professor emerita from Oklahoma State university. She has been teaching OLLI classes for over a decade. Participants should purchase or borrow Faithfu