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The Seven Ages
Louise Glück
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Description for The Seven Ages
Paperback. In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book. Num Pages: 68 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 110.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
Number of Pages
68
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857545425
SKU
9781857545425
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