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ISBN-10: 0060933496
ISBN-13: 9780060933494
Publisher: Ecco Press
Publish Date: 03/26/2002
Dimensions: 8.88" L, 6.20" W, 0.24" H

The Seven Ages

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Overview

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita Nova

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. The Seven Ages 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.

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Reviews

"[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." – Booklist

"As always, Glück demonstrates incredible craft; this is assured and quietly beautiful poetry." – Library Journal

"Every poem in The Seven Ages [is] a weighty, incandescent marvel." – Melanie Rehak, The New York Times Book Review

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ISBN-10: 0060933496
ISBN-13: 9780060933494
Publisher: Ecco Press
Publish Date: 03/26/2002
Dimensions: 8.88" L, 6.20" W, 0.24" H
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