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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Louise Glück, Nobel-winning poet of terse and candid lyricism, dies at 80

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Nobel laureate Louise Glück, a poet of unblinking candor and perception who wove classical allusions, philosophical reveries, bittersweet memories and humorous asides into indelible portraits of a fallen and heartrending world, has died.

Glück's death was confirmed Friday by Jonathan Galassi, her editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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