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Averno
Louise Gluck
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Description for Averno
Paperback. Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. This collection shows Averno as the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Both epic and intimate in scope, it explores the enduring drama of love and death. Num Pages: 79 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Ancient myth is reanimated in the desolation of Persephone's laments for the lost warmth of earthly life. Both epic and intimate in scope, Averno explores the enduring drama of love and death.
Averno, a crater lake in southern Italy, was for the Romans the entrance to the underworld, both gateway and impassable barrier between the living and the dead. In Louise Gluck's latest collection, Averno is the only source of heat and light in a world turned to icy winter. Ancient myth is reanimated in the desolation of Persephone's laments for the lost warmth of earthly life. Both epic and intimate in scope, Averno explores the enduring drama of love and death.
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
79
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857548372
SKU
9781857548372
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About Louise Gluck
Louise Gluck was born in 1943 in New York. She is divorced with one son. She started her teaching career in 1971 at Goddard College, Vermont. At present she is a Professor at Williams College and lives in Cambridge. She is the author of seven collections of poems and a volume of essays. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, the ... Read more
Reviews for Averno
'Gluck stands at the centre of time and speaks, not with raw emotion or linguistic abandon, but with the ageless urgency of questions about the soul.' - Partisan Review '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 ... Read more