Ararat (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Louise Gluck
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, Creation myth, Mythology or myths, Women, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Widows or widowers, Heroes or heroism
Louise Gluck’s poetry has been highly praised. She has been called one of the foremost lyric poets of her generation, and Ararat provides a continuation of her lyric tradition. Her fourth book, The Triumph of Achilles, won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Kane Award. She has also been awarded numerous grants, including ones from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Gluck used Greek myths as the launching pad for the poems in her fourth book,...
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