Louise Glück

Averno (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A ravishing collection by Louise Glück, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

Averno is a small crater lake in southern , 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.
Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781466875593
• Artikelnr.: 41131156

Autorenporträt

Louise Glück

Rezensionen

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