I’m glad people are happy with the selection of Louise Gluck as our next national Poet Laureate. I have to admit that while I’m sure I’ve read some of her work, none of it has stuck with me. I’m not real impressed with what I’ve found on the web. I am more surprised surprised at the generally warm reception she is getting in some of the poetry weblogs, considering that her work seems obviously representative of the maligned School of Quietude.

By all accounts she is deserving, a hard working writer who doesn’t seek the limelight. These are good things, right? I’m just not sure how much they’ll help her in what is essentially a public relations position.

I guess at the very least, a whole bunch of people will learn to pronounce her last name correctly.