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title: "The Seven Ages"
brand: "louise gluck"
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# The Seven Ages

**Brand:** louise gluck
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## Customer Reviews

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    Life’s moments
  

*by M***A on Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2020*

Luved it... hadn’t read Gluck before but felt I should after she earned the Nobel... she makes the ordinary extraordinary!

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    Five Stars
  

*by M***I on Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2015*

Great Product

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    Delight, then solace
  

*by P***A on Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2016*

"Earth will seduce you," Gluck writes in The Seven Ages, "It will ravish you, it will not keep you alive." In her ninth collection, Gluck reflects on entering her fifth decade, and looking back on a life of pleasures and disappoints, ponders what it was all about. What makes it worth it? Her simplicity and quiet tone places immense pressure on every line, so that we feel the authority of her statements as if listening to a prophet.The moments that she chooses to reflect on are ordinary ones, though they are invested with enormous power and significance. These include standing in her grandmother's kitchen, watching her make a fruit punch, "aroma of summer fruit, intensity of concentration: the colored liquid turning gradually lighter more radiant, more light passing through it. Delight, then solace." A moment like this is turned into a transcendent meditation where "the self disappears into it or inseparable from it, somehow suspended, floating, its needs fully exposed, awakened, fully alive." (The Sensual World). In "Eros," she writes, "I had drawn my chair to the hotel window, to watch the rain. I was in a kind of dream or trace--in love, and yet I wanted nothing." To read this poetry is to enter into meditation with the poet, utterly absorbed in the present, lost in the simplest objects--rain, wind, a flower petal, light, to become a mind utterly sated by the grandeur of existence.This hunger to know the moment, to pursue eternity in every breath, is heightened with the realization of impending death. Even though the mind wants to live and relive all its exultations, "The body continues like the path of an arrow as it has to, to live." This conflict is most poignant in "Ripe Peach," where the speaker describes life as a "disappearing sweetness surrounding the stone end." How do we live with so much, and then have to give it up in the end? She asks "Is there light that survives the end which the mind's enterprise continues to live"? The poem provides no resolution, except to the thing itself: "There was a peach in the wicker basket. there was a bowl of fruit. Fifty years. Such a long walk from the door to the table." Gluck's poetry as a way of stretching the simplest facts, so that the walk from the door to the table is the breadth of fifty years.All we have of life is what is in front of us. We cannot go back or stop the passage of time, even though we yearn with all our might to have it again. "Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the lived---what could be dearer than this, given the closeness of death?" We are all close to death, at every moment, at the same time every moment has the potential for eternity. That realization is the heart of each of the poems in The Seven Ages.I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because Gluck has taken risks in this collection, and sometimes it works better than others. Simplicity is a risk, when sparseness can lend power to a simple image, it can also fall flat. In a few poems Gluck's pronouncements feel prosaic, more telling than showing. The poems in the first section have the strength of both descriptive imagery and prophetic pronouncement. "The Sensual World" stands out to me in this regard. Some of the later poems have less power, and I think they would not stand up by themselves without being bolstered by others in this collection.

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