The Seven Ages

Louise Glück · 2001 CE · Poem · Modern / American · Contemporary

Spare poems that take stock of a life by its stages, from a childhood scene to the body's later seasons, in a speaker who argues with her own memory. Glück's marriage, her mother and the fact of ageing are the recurring material. A lyric collection that comes after Vita Nova and before Averno in her late work.

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