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Averno

Louise Glück

(Penguin modern classics)(Penguin poetry)

Penguin Classics/Penguin, 2021, c2006

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"First published in the USA by Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2006. First published in Great Britain by Carcanet Press, 2006"--T.p. verso

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Description

'Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Gluck's masterpiece' The New York Times Book Review An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poet This startlingly original reworking of the Persephone myth takes us to the icy shores of Averno, the crater lake regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. Here, the consolations of rebirth and renewal are eclipsed by the immediacy of loss - by a mother's possessive grief, an abducted girl's equivocal memories, a farmer's lament for a lost harvest. This chorus offers neither comfort nor solace but deepened understanding, its sorrow textured by the poet's luminous wit. Together, the poems of Averno swell to a staggeringly powerful lamentation, through which the reader glimpses the ecstasy of the inevitable, only to find it resisted by the insistent, impersonal presence of the Earth.

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  • NCID
    BC10320469
  • ISBN
    • 9780241526002
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    [London]
  • Pages/Volumes
    viii, 79 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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