Averno

Name: Averno
Brand: Louise Glück
SKU: 9780241526002
Price: 8.24 GBP
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by Louise Glück

Title:

Averno

Author:

Louise Glück

Series (if any):

Penguin Modern Classics

Format:

Paperback

Number of pages:

96 pages

Publisher:

TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale

ISBN-13:

9780241526002

EAN:

9780241526002

Classifications:

Poetry

Weight (g):

198

Dimensions (mm):

198 x 129 x 13

Publication Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Condition:

New

Price:£8.24

15 copies in stock

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Description

''Brilliant poems of complex, haunting power... Averno may be Glück''s masterpiece'' The New York Times Book ReviewAn acclaimed collection from the Nobel prize-winning poetThis 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.