Louise Glück:
The Seven Ages

The fierce, austerely beautiful, and visionary voice that has become Glück's trademark speaks in these poems of a life lived in unflinching awareness. Unlike her past work, many of these poems inhabit the realm of dreams, moving backward in time to an eidetic, unrecoverable past and ahead to an as-yet unrealized future. "Earth was given to me in a dream/ In a dream I possessed it." In these poems, Glück is wry, dreamlike, idiomatic, undeceived, unrelenting.

Fable

Then I looked down and saw
the world I was entering, that would be my home.
And I turned to my companion, and I said Where are we?
And he replied Nirvana.
And I said again But the light will give us no peace.

Also by Louise Gluck:

Vita Nova (1999)
Boston Book ReviewBingham Poetry Prize

Meadowlands (1996)

Ararat (1992)
Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry

Descending Figure (1980)

The House on Marshland (1975)

Firstborn(1968)