"Severe, biting, disaffected, bleak: These words are used often to describe Louise Glück’s poems. When she won the Nobel Prize in Literature earlier this month, she was praised for writing “that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” The same adjectives could apply to “Early December in Croton-on-Hudson,” published in The Atlantic in 1967, in which Glück recalls a blown tire on a trip to deliver Christmas presents" [https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB1anf6v?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare](https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB1anf6v?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare)