Seven Ages

Seven Ages
Louise Gluck
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29 Nov 2001 UK
9781857545425
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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 over, at each wild leap and transformation, flames shoot up the reader' s spine. In an essay she writes, "one of the revelations of art is the discovery of a tone or perspective at once wholly unexpected and wholly true to a set of materials". This truth to materials -language, occasion, antecedent - is the proof of a poem.
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ISBN-13: 9781857545425
Published: 29 Nov 2001
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Carcanet Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Format: Paperback
Pages: 68

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