EAN: 9780241526002

PENGUIN MODERN CLASSICS AVERNO - LOUISE GLÜCK...

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