
Vermont’s landscapes inspired Nobel Laureate Louise Glück’s best poems, ones that reflect on the resilience, loss, and beauty that connect human experiences with the natural world. Vermont novelist, poet, and professor Elizabeth A.I. Powell explores the transformative work of this seminal artist.
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Elizabeth A.I. Powell is the author of three books of poems, most recently “Atomizer” (LSU Press). Her second book of poems, “Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances” was a “Books We Love 2016” by The New Yorker. Her novel, “Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of JCrew Catalogues” was published in 2019 in the U.K. Recent poems appear in The New Republic, American Poetry Review, Women’s Review of Books, among others. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Northern Vermont University.
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