The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death,

The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable

Louise Glck 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 Glck'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.
Country USA
Brand Ecco
Manufacturer Ecco
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber black & white illustrations
Color Other
ReleaseDate 2002-03-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780060933494

The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable