Averno
of Louise Glück
Description
Averno is a small crater lake in southern Italy, regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. That place gives its name to Louise Gl�ck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, no less ravishing for being savage, grief-stricken. What Averno provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present.Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 79 pages
- Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication Date February 6th 2007
- First Publication 10/30/06
- Language English
- ISBN 9780374530747
- Edition Not informed
- Category Poetry & Essays
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