The seven ages - louise gluck

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wild Iris and Vita Nova 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 doing do, 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.