Averno

"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 w...

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Main Author: Glück, Louise, 1943-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Edition: First paperback edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Night Migrations
  • October
  • Persephone the Wanderer
  • Prism
  • Crater Lake
  • Echoes
  • Fugue
  • The Evening Star
  • Landscape
  • A Myth of Innocence
  • Archaic Fragment
  • Blue Rotunda
  • A Myth of Devotion
  • Averno
  • Omens
  • Telescope
  • Thrush
  • Persephone the Wanderer.