Seven Ages

English

ISBN: 0060933496

EAN: 9780060933494

Category: Poetry / General

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 04/01/2002

Synopsis: Louise Gl?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 oracles metamorphosis into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, and crude. The Seven Ages is Gl?cks 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 readers spine.

Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null  Los Angeles Times Book Prizes – null 

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Seven Ages

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.34 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 4.8 oz

Pages: 80