The recent acrimonious debate about who should translate the African American poet Amanda Gorman's widely publicized poem, 'The Hill we Climb', is absolutely unprecedented. Gorman read the poem during President John Biden's Inauguration ceremony held on 20 January, 2021.
Gluck's poems centre on relationships, they centre on responses to the non-human world; the empirical and the epistemic are fused seamlessly in her poems, so protagonists from the Greek classics blend in with the contemporary American landscape and soulscape, braided with a sense of universal humanism and deep empathy for sentient life-forms.
