Averno

Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Gluck''s masterpiece'' The New York Times Book Reviewbr>br>An acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetbr>br>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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Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power... Averno may be Glück's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers. Nicholas Christopher New York Times Book Review

Product details

• Authors: Louise Gluck, Louise Glück
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.08.2021
• EAN: 9780241526002
• ISBN: 978-0-241-52600-2
• No. of pages: 80
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; POETRY / American / General, POETRY / Women Authors, Feminism & feminist theory, Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)