Writing is dangerous, it costs some people their lives. Louise Glück, who endured years of anorexia and therapy, a domineering mother, two marriages including divorce, a few affairs and even more therapy, reached a biblical age – unlike Sylvia Plath or Anne Sexton. She started out as the youngest confessional poets, who pushed forward in the midst of the lollipop-colored Eisenhower fifties and practiced self-exposure as a poetic device.
Obituary for Louise Glück: Comfortingly bleak – culture
