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Nobel prize winning poet, Louise Gluck, has passed away at age 80. Among her accomplishments was the Pulitzer prize winning collection "The Wild Iris."
In 2003-04, she served as the Poet Laureate of the United States.
"At the end of my suffering
there was a door"
--opening line to The Wild Iris (1992) by Louise Gluck
Louise Gluck, 4/22/1943-10/13/2023
npr:
After a black day, I play Haydn,
and feel a little warmth in my hands.
The keys are ready. Kind hammers fall.
The sound is spirited, green, and full of silence.
The sound says that freedom exists
and someone pays no tax to Caesar.
I shove my hands in my haydnpockets
and act like a man who is calm about it all.
I raise my haydnflag. The signal is:
“We do not surrender. But want peace.”
The music is a house of glass standing on a slope;
rocks are flying, rocks are rolling.
The rocks roll straight through the house
but every pane of glass is still whole.
- “Allegro,” by Tomas Transtromer, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature today. Poem translated by Goran Malmqvist.
BREAKING: Malala Yousafzai Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Malala, now 17, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago in her home country of Pakistan after coming to prominence for her campaigning for education for girls.
She won for what the Nobel committee called her “heroic struggle” for girls’ right to an education.
She is the youngest ever winner of the prize. (x)
Marie Sklodowska-Curie was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize, the first person to receive the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in two different sciences.
Ivo Andrić accepts the Nobel Prize in Literature from King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden on December 10, 1961.
Ernest Hemingway and Mary Welsh. <3
