Author: Gluck, Louise, 1943- (Keywords)

Award-winning US poet laureate Louise Glück presents this collection of poems.

The new collection by Louise Glück, the multi-award winning poet and former US Laureate.

This collection shows the evolution of the poet through her first five books of poetry. The poems are as various as the force of Glück's intelligence is constant.

Includes "Penelope's Song" in which the author interweaves in a book-length sequence an account of the dissolution of a contemporary marriage with the story of Homer's "Odyssey". This collection of poetry also explores the notion of the "nostos", the homecoming.

In this award-winning collection, Louise Glück writes of her own upbringing, her human and literary antecedents, dwelling on details of lives and poems until both the reader and the author arrive at a point of understanding.

The Seven Ages is Louise Gluck's ninth book, her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down at her own death and, in so doing, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible.

With black humour and luminously crafted lyricism, these poems weave together the stories of an unnamed rural village. We meet children with unspoken secrets and adults on the verge of adultery, living against a natural world that is blind and ravenous.