- 80 pages
- English
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The Seven Ages
About this book
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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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Publisher’s Note
Dedication
Epigraph
The Seven Ages
Moonbeam
The Sensual World
Mother and Child
Fable
Solstice
Stars
Youth
Exalted Image
Reunion
Radium
Birthday
Ancient Text
From a Journal
Island
The Destination
The Balcony
Copper Beech
Study of My Sister
August
Summer at the Beach
Rain in Summer
Civilization
Decade
The Empty Glass
Quince Tree
The Traveler
Arboretum
Dream of Lust
Grace
Fable
The Muse of Happiness
Ripe Peach
Unpainted Door
Mitosis
Eros
The Ruse
Time
Memoir
Saint Joan
Aubade
Screened Porch
Summer Night
Fable
About the Author
Also by Louise Glück
Copyright
About the Publisher
The Seven Ages
In my first dream the world appeared
the salt, the bitter, the forbidden, the sweet
In my second I descended
I was human, I couldn’t just see a thing
beast that I a...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Publisher’s Note
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- The Seven Ages
- Moonbeam
- The Sensual World
- Mother and Child
- Fable
- Solstice
- Stars
- Youth
- Exalted Image
- Reunion
- Radium
- Birthday
- Ancient Text
- From a Journal
- Island
- The Destination
- The Balcony
- Copper Beech
- Study of My Sister
- August
- Summer at the Beach
- Rain in Summer
- Civilization
- Decade
- The Empty Glass
- Quince Tree
- The Traveler
- Arboretum
- Dream of Lust
- Grace
- Fable
- The Muse of Happiness
- Ripe Peach
- Unpainted Door
- Mitosis
- Eros
- The Ruse
- Time
- Memoir
- Saint Joan
- Aubade
- Screened Porch
- Summer Night
- Fable
- About the Author
- Also by Louise Glück
- Copyright
- About the Publisher