| Averno: Poems Contributor(s): Gluck, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374530742 ISBN-13: 9780374530747 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2007 Annotation: Gluck presents her 11th collection of poems that takes its name from Averno, a small crater lake in southern Italy regarded by the ancient Romans as the entrance to the underworld. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
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| Publisher Description: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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 Gl ck's tenth collection: in a landscape turned irretrievably to winter, it is a gate or passageway that invites traffic between worlds while at the same time resisting their reconciliation. Averno is an extended lamentation, its long, restless poems no less spellbinding for being without conventional resoltution or consolation, 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 present. Averno is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gluck, Louise: - Louise Glück is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Triumph of Achilles, the Bollingen Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poems: 1962-2012, and the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |