About this title: Louise Gluck has long practised poetry as a species of clairvoyance. She began as Cassandra, at a distance, in league with the immortals. To read her books sequentially is to chart the oracle's metamorphoses into unwilling vessel, reckless, mortal, down-to-earth. "The Seven Ages" is Gluck's ninth book, one of her strangest and certainly her most bold. In it - like William Blake's mystical Thel - she gazes down at her own death and in so doing forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible. Her act at once defies and embraces the inevitable and is finally mimetic. Over and ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Ecco Press, Hopewell, NJ
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780880016346ISBN:0880016345
Description: Signed by Author. Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 68 pages. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. The author's ninth collection of poems. One of Louise Gluck's finest achievements. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. "Investigates the disappointments, unfinished quests, and unanswered questions that compose, arrange, and ruin a life. Gluck dares her readers to ask, as they might have in childhood, harrowing questions. Scenes, queries, ... read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Ecco, New York
Date Published: 2001
Description: None jacket. Softcover SIGNED 68 pages. 44 poems. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B/W pictorial wrappers. Near Fine. One minor scratch on back cover. read more
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