One of my favorite living poets, Louise Glück once called me on - TopicsExpress



          

One of my favorite living poets, Louise Glück once called me on my cell phone to discuss permission for using a few lines from one of her poems in my novel, The Silence of Trees. I got the call from her as I was walking to the car after grocery shopping, and I got genuinely weak in the knees hearing her say, Is this Valya Lupescu? This is Louise Glück. I had never before nor since had that kind of a reaction to communicating in any fashion with another writer or artist, but her poetry had been so important to me, and her words had taken root in my heart and imagination so deeply since I first read her work back in college in the early 90s. I managed to sit down in the car and have a conversation, my hands only slightly shaking from excitement. Im delighted to hear that she was honored last night. Congratulations to Louise Glück for winning the National Book Award for Poetry! Sharing William Giraldis wonderful interview with her.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:54:44 +0000

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