ISBN10: 0060185260, ISBN13: 9780060185268, [publisher: Hopewell, NJ: The Ecco Press, 2001] Hardcover First Edition 1st Printing. Signed. 68 pages. Published in 2001. Rare Louise Gluck collectible set. Pristine copies of "The Seven Ages" and "Solstice" Poem Broadside, both signed by Louise Gluck. "The Seven Ages": The author's ninth collection of poems. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Louise Gluck's "The Seven Ages". Her boldest poetic statement since "The Wild Iris" (1992). Brilliantly deploys the metaphors of Myth and Nature to describe - need one point it out - the irresoluble complexity of our human condition. "Investigates the disappointments, unfinished quests, and unanswered questions that compose, arrange, and ruin a life. Wise, densely crafted meditations" (Publishers Weekly). Just as C. P. Cavafy, the greatest Greek poet of the 20th century, found a way to fuse the mythical with the personal, so has Louise Gluck. As such, her greatest achievement is that she has found a permanent way out of the confessional mode - otherwise so irresistible - that most, not just some, contemporary American poets continue to wallow in, especially the "identity politics" kind (feminist, ...