The Seven Ages

by Gluck, Louise

• ISBN13: 9780060933494
• ISBN10: 0060933496
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-02
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Louise GlU ck 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 GlU ck'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.

Author Biography

Louise Gluck has won the Bollingen Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt National Poetry Prize, and the Ambassador's Award for her poetry, as well as the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. Her book Vita Nova won the first annual New Yorker Readers Award. Louise Gluck teaches at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Table of Contents

The Seven Ages	3	(2)
Moonbeam	5	(1)
The Sensual World	6	(2)
Mother and Child	8	(1)
Fable	9	(1)
Solstice	10	(1)
Stars	11	(2)
Youth	13	(2)
Exalted Image	15	(2)
Reunion	17	(1)
Radium	18	(2)
Birthday	20	(2)
Ancient Text	22	(2)
From a Journal	24	(3)
Island	27	(1)
The Destination	28	(1)
The Balcony	29	(1)
Copper Beech	30	(1)
Study of My Sister	31	(1)
August	32	(2)
Summer at The Beach	34	(1)
Rain in Summer	35	(2)
Civilization	37	(1)
Decade	38	(1)
The Empty Glass	39	(2)
Quince Tree	41	(2)
The Traveler	43	(1)
Arboretum	44	(2)
Dream of Lust	46	(2)
Grace	48	(1)
Fable	49	(1)
The Muse of Happiness	50	(2)
Ripe Peach	52	(3)
Unpainted Door	55	(1)
Mitosis	56	(2)
Eros	58	(1)
The Ruse	59	(2)
Time	61	(1)
Memoir	62	(1)
Saint Joan	63	(2)
Aubade	65	(1)
Screened Porch	66	(1)
Summer Night	67	(1)
Fable	68