About this title: In this ninth book by Gluck, a previous Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize recipient, her straightforward and haunting voice approaches autobiographical material, delving into questions about her own past. Gluck's older sister features importantly in this volume. Named a Best Book of 2001 by the Los Angeles Times.
Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is described below.
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060933494ISBN:0060933496
Description: Good++ Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Ft. cover has a crease going diagonally across it, light shelfwear on covers. Very good pages, clean, crisp and tight. 68 pages. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Press/HarperCollins, New York
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Black and gray paper covered boards. [ix], 68 pp. As issued. Dust jacket shows approx. 3 1/2" closed horizontal slit across lower front panel (probably from an Xacto knife when the shipment was opened), else as issued, now in mylar. 1st edition with full number line. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060933494ISBN:0060933496
Description: New. Brand new. Just a bit of ever so slight shelf wear but it is new, crisp and unread! May have publishers remainder mark on the edge just to assure it is not returned to the store. From Publishers Weekly: Since the mid-1970s, critics and readers have admired Gl ck's spare, deceptively simple style; her poems subject the autobiographical, even confessional impulse to analytical rigor, arranging soul-searching questions and symbols into sequences frequently modeled on famous old texts ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 4/1/2001
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: New. FIRST EDITION STATED. Hardback w/ DJ. You are buying a Book in NEW condition with very light shelf wear to include very light edge and corner wear. Buy it Now! ! ! As always, thank you for buying this book from International Book Source, YOUR ONE source FOR ALL your BOOK related NEEDS. Please remember to CHOOSE carefully how QUICKLY you would like to RECEIVE this material FAST, or standard (on next page). Thanks again! ! ! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: Fine in Good jacket. Fine in Good dj; slim hardcover, stated first ed.; quarter-cloth binding, clean inside and out. Dj is somewhat rubbed, a bit creased at top edge, just some minor general shelfwear. Prize-winning poet Gluck's ninth book. read more
Edition: First Edition. First Printing.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco, New York
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: Near Fine in near fine jacket. 68 pp. Review copy. Promotion letter laid in. Dust jacket is protected with a Brodart archival cover. From the jacket: "The Seven Ages is Gluck'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 ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ecco Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060933494ISBN:0060933496
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ecco Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060933494ISBN:0060933496
Description: New, Publisher overstock, may have small remainder mark. Excellent condition, never read, purchased from publisher as excess inventory. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: Very good. Hardcover. Good Used. Missing Dust Jacket. SKU: 12769310 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780060185268. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: Very good. Hardcover. Good Used. Missing Dust Jacket. SKU: 12769311 All orders shipped within 1 business day. 14 day money back guarantee ISBN: 9780060185268. read more
Edition: First edition. Full line of numbers
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ecco
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060185268ISBN:0060185260
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Usual stamps & stickers; no other marks or creases; DJ protected by mylar; light shelfwear to bottom edge of cover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 80 p. read more
Edition: First Trade Paperback Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press, New York, NY
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060933494ISBN:0060933496
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ECCO
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780060933494ISBN:0060933496
Description: New. Louise GlUck 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, an... read more
"Have now read this book two times, and still it does not quite hit. Gluck has amazing line breaks and images and her voice has an eery authority--one that has been through fire and back--but, still, this collection does not hold a candle to "The Wild Iris." Will have to read more Gluck to see if her other collections break the standard she has already set."
"I had this stanza posted from "Ripe Peach" in my office for years: "There was a time/Only certainty gave me/any joy. Imagine-/ certainty, a dead thing." This is a but of example of the wise and beautiful poetry that is Louise Gluck's "The Seven Ages". Speaking of the separation of body and soul in the poem, "Mitosis": "But at some point the mind lingered./It wanted more time by the sea, more time in the fields/gathering wildflowers." Or "The Muse of Happiness": "And darkness delayed by the season./So that it seems/part of a great gift""
"Although this is Louise Gluck's 9th book....it is my first experience with her work. I like her style , and her poems are easy to understand. Although some of the poems included are thought provoking I found most comfortable and peaceful. ( A treat for me on Mothers Day Weekend) I will be reading more of Gluck's books. Pulitzer Prize , Bobbitt Natl Poretry Prize amoung her awards."
We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.
rating
