Averno / Louise Glück.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glück, Louise, 1943-2023.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persephone (Greek deity)--Poetry.

Persephone.

Persephone (Greek deity).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 79 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

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 Gluck'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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

0374107424

OCLC:

59712168

Publisher Number:

9780374107420