It happened before she expected it: Victoria Chang’s parents were struck by illness. First her father was severely debilitated by a stroke; then her mother died. She felt so isolated by caregiving ...

Louise Glück, who has died aged 80, was a poet of sharp directness and sometimes dark observation. She won the 2020 Nobel prize for literature, the first American poet to do so since TS Eliot in 1948.

It happened before she expected it: Victoria Chang’s parents were struck by illness. First her father was severely debilitated by a stroke; then her mother died. She felt so isolated by caregiving ...