The Seven Ages

Locations
Call Number: 811 Gl, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Gluck, Louise
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	811 Gl	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Gluck, Louise	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Plays & Poetry / Gluck, Louise	4-week checkout	Due 05-14-2024

The seven ages -- Moonbeam -- The sensual world -- Mother and child -- Fable -- Solstice -- Stars -- Youth -- Exalted image -- Reunion -- Radium -- Birthday -- Ancient text -- From a journal -- Island -- The destination -- The balcony -- Copper beech -- Study of my sister -- August -- Summer at the beach -- Rain in summer -- Civilization -- Decade -- The empty glass -- Quince tree -- The traveler -- Arboretum -- Dream of lust -- Grace -- Fable -- The muse of happiness -- Ripe peach -- Unpainted door -- Mitosis -- Eros -- The ruse -- Time -- Memoir -- Saint Joan -- Aubade -- Screened porch -- Summer night -- Fable.
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 and crude. 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 the reader's spine.

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