Averno - Hardcover

Gluck, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374107424 ISBN 13: 9780374107420

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

Synopsis

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 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.

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Review

Praise for Louise Gluck:
"There are a few living poets whose new poems one always feels eager to read. Louise Gluck ranks at the top of the list. Her writing's emotional and rhetorical intensity are beyond dispute. Not once in six books has she wavered from a formal seriousness, an unhurried sense of control and a starkness of expression that, like a scalpel, slices the mist dwelling between hope and pain." --David Biespiel, "The Washington Post"

"Brilliant İpoems of¨ complex, haunting power . . . "Averno" may be Gluck's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." -Nicholas Christopher, "The New York Times Book Review""" "Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Gluck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet's insight, a mother's warmth, and a mortal's empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope." -"The New Yorker"

" Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . "Averno" may be Glu ck's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." - Nicholas Christopher, "The New York Times Book Review""" " Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Glu ck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet's insight, a mother's warmth, and a mortal's empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope." - "The New Yorker"

" Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . "Averno" may be Glu ck' s masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." - Nicholas Christopher, "The New York Times Book Review""" " Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Glu ck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet' s insight, a mother' s warmth, and a mortal' s empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope." - "The New Yorker"

"Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . "Averno" may be Gluck's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." -Nicholas Christopher, "The New York Times Book Review""

"Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Gluck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet's insight, a mother's warmth, and a mortal's empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope." -"The New Yorker""

Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . "Averno" may be Gluck's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers. "Nicholas Christopher, The New York Times Book Review"

Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Gluck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet's insight, a mother's warmth, and a mortal's empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope. "The New Yorker""

"Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . Averno may be Gluck's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." --Nicholas Christopher, The New York Times Book Review

"Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Gluck does . . . The poems brilliantly display a poet's insight, a mother's warmth, and a mortal's empathy. There is wry humor, too, and, amid much that is dark, there are fragments of hope." --The New Yorker

About the Author

Louise Glück has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Bollingen Prize, and is the former Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374107424
• ISBN 13: 9780374107420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 79