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Seven Ages
Louise Glück
Synopsis "Seven Ages"
In contemplating her own death, Louise Gluck confronts the possible and the inevitable in this, her ninth and boldest book.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.
(1943-2023) Louise Elisabeth Glück fue una poeta estadounidense. Nacida en Nueva York en 1943, publicó trece volúmenes de poesía, dos colecciones de ensayos y una breve pieza en prosa. En 2020 fue galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Literatura "por su inconfundible voz poética, que hace que la existencia individual sea universal con una belleza estricta". Por sus obras, también recibió el Premio Pulitzer, el Premio Bollingen, el Premio Nacional del Libro y la Medalla de Oro a la Poesía de la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras, entre otros. Enseñó en las universidades de Yale y Stanford.
