Averno: Poems Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Averno: Poems Book

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 Glück’s eleventh collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is the only source of heat and light, a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time opposing their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without plot or hope, 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 presence.Read More

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  • 0374107424
  • 9780374107420
  • Louise Glueck
  • 24 February 2006
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 96
  • 1
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