Averno

Louise Glück

2006 • 100 pages

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An eleventh collection of works by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning writer takes its inspiration from a small crater lake in southern Italy and is an extended lamentation that evaluates Averno's existence in a winter landscape and role as a doorway between worlds. Reprint.

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Lisa

Kind of underwhelming? I need to read The Wild Iris, I guess. Surprised this won a Nobel.

October 26, 2020

Angela Ambroz

Poetry is a little daunting, and, like many people, I feel a bit like a dim-witted plebe on this stuff. Am I getting it? No, really. Did I just get that? I will just never know.

Anyway, I'm not sure if I GOT any of these, but I did enjoy them. Meditations on death, being a lady (and the damn patriarchy), and beautiful, serene nature. Also ancient classical stuff. Lyrical (which I guess is like, duh, it's poetry) and often enchanting.

March 14, 2013