The seven ages
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...
| Main Author: | Glück, Louise, 1943- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Ecco Press,
[2001]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.