The Seven Ages - by Louise Gluck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</strong></p><p><strong>The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>The Wild Iris</em> and <em>Vita Nova</em></strong></p> <p>Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal and crude. <em>The Seven Ages</em> is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in doing do, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible--an act that simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. over and over, at each wild leap or transformation, flames shoot up the reader's spine. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Louise Glück has long practiced poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortal; to read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. <em>The Seven Ages</em> is Glück's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible -- an act that simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. Over and over, at each wild leap or transformation, flames shoot up the reader's spine.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[Glück] is radiant in her frank self-questioning and glorious in her jousting tournament with time...Glück's poems are so right, so true, they're virtually telepathic."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"As always, Glück demonstrates incredible craft; this is assured and quietly beautiful poetry."--Library Journal<br><br>"Every poem in The Seven Ages [is] a weighty, incandescent marvel."--Melanie Rehak, The New York Times Book Review<br>
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