Louise Glück's The Seven Ages
Karyn Crispo Jones
Thu Jan 26, 07-09:00pm, 14E-304
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Read The Seven Ages
Reading and discussion of The Seven Ages, Glück's ninth book of poems. . . "her strangest and most bold. In it she stares down her own death, and, in so doing, forces endless superimpositions of the possible on the impossible -- an act that simultaneously defies and embraces the inevitable, and is, finally, mimetic. Over and over, at each wild leap or transformation, flames shoot up the reader's spine."
A Cambridge, MA resident and winner of many prizes in poetry -- including the MIT Anniversary Medal (2000) -- and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations and from the National Endowment for the Arts, Glück is a member of the American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters, a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Contact: Julie Saunders, 14N-407, x3-3581, juliec@mit.edu
Sponsor: Literature
Latest update: 30-Dec-2005
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