Averno, Louise Glück
Type
Label
Averno, Louise Glück
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Averno
Oclc number
59712168
Responsibility statement
Louise Glück
Summary
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. --Publisher
Table Of Contents
The night migrations -- October -- Persephone the wanderer -- Prism -- Crater Lake -- Echoes -- Fugue -- The evening star -- Landscape -- A myth of innocence -- Archaic fragment -- Blue rotunda -- A myth of devotion -- Averno -- Omens -- Telescope -- Thrush -- Persephone the wanderer