The Seven Ages

<p><strong>Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature</strong></p><p><strong>The masterful collection from the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning author of <em>The Wild Iris</em> and <em>Vita Nova</em></strong></p> <p>Louise Glück 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. <em>The Seven Ages</em> is Glück's 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 reader's spine. </p>