Averno - by Louise Gluck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b> <p/>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 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. <i>Averno</i> 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 <i>Averno</i> provides is not a map to a point of arrival or departure, but a diagram of where we are, the harrowing, enduring present. <p/><i>Averno</i> is a 2006 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Brilliant [poems of] complex, haunting power . . . <i>Averno</i> may be Glück's masterpiece. Certainly it demonstrates that she is writing at the peak of her powers." --<i>Nicholas Christopher, The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Few poets can shoulder the weight of myth the way Glück 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." --<i>The New Yorker</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Louise Glück</b> is the author of more than a dozen books of poems and a collection of essays. Her many awards include the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the 2015 National Humanities Medal, the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for <i>The Wild Iris</i>, the 2014 National Book Award for <i>Faithful and Virtuous Night</i>, the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for <i>The Triumph of Achilles</i>, the 2001 Bollingen Prize, the 2012 <i>Los Angeles Times </i>Book Prize for <i>Poems: 1962-2012</i>, and the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Yale University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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