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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